Canton, TX
Canton wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Canton lands at the 73rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,277 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Canton at the 74th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Canton's building exposure, zone by zone
2,277 buildings are counted in Canton, and 80.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16.1% in Direct exposure or the 3.1% rated Minimal.
Canton against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Canton sits at just the 39th percentile even though it scores 73rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canton ranks 8,550 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,756 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,097 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Canton
At the 73rd percentile nationally, Canton carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 80.8% of Canton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Canton's 8,550-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Canton, see the exposure-zones guide.