Grapeland, TX
Grapeland wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grapeland at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,027 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grapeland at the 81st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Grapeland (81.7% of 1,027 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 18.3% sit in the Direct zone.
Grapeland against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Grapeland sits at just the 61st percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Grapeland ranks 6,381 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,747 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 709 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Grapeland
Grapeland's 80th-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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Grapeland (81.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,027 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grapeland. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Grapeland, see the exposure-zones guide.