East Columbia, TX
East Columbia, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores East Columbia at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 104 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Columbia's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
East Columbia's building exposure, zone by zone
104 buildings are counted in East Columbia, and 93.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How East Columbia compares
East Columbia's 78th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 56th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Columbia ranks 6,883 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,874 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 783 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Columbia
East Columbia's 78th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 93.3% of East Columbia in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 104 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Columbia. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond East Columbia, see the exposure-zones guide.