Ennis, TX
Ennis, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Ennis's 8,064 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ennis at the 78th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Ennis's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 40.1% of Ennis's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 26% Direct and 33.9% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,064 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Ennis compares
Inside Texas, Ennis sits at just the 56th percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Ennis ranks 6,884 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,083 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 784 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ennis
Ennis'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Ennis's 40.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Ennis's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ennis's 6,884-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ennis's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.