Daisetta, TX
Daisetta, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Daisetta at the 74th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 605 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Daisetta at the 77th percentile, close to its 74th-percentile risk score.
Where Daisetta's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Daisetta (57.5% of 605 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 42.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Daisetta ranks
Inside Texas, Daisetta sits at just the 45th percentile even though it scores 74th 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, Daisetta ranks 8,076 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,776 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 994 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Daisetta and the insurance market
Daisetta's 74th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Daisetta
Daisetta's 57.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 605 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Daisetta. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Daisetta, see the exposure-zones guide.