Easton, TX
Easton wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Easton at the 72nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 280 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Easton at the 73rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Easton's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 87.9% of Easton's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 12.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 246 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Easton ranks
Easton ranks lower within Texas (36th percentile statewide) than its 72nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Easton ranks 8,898 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,205 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,150 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Easton and the insurance market
Easton's 72nd-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Easton (87.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Easton's 8,898-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Easton, see the exposure-zones guide.