Hallettsville, TX
Hallettsville, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Hallettsville's 1,791 buildings earn a 60th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hallettsville at the 62nd percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Hallettsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Hallettsville (69.4% of 1,791 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 30.6% sit in the Direct zone.
Hallettsville against the rest of the country
Hallettsville's 60th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hallettsville ranks 12,557 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,097 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,538 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Hallettsville's 60th-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
Hallettsville's 69.4% 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 1,791 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hallettsville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hallettsville, see the exposure-zones guide.