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Italy wildfire risk explained
Italy's 962 buildings earn a 77th-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 Italy at the 75th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
Italy's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 55.7% of Italy's 962 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 44.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Italy compares
Italy ranks lower within Texas (52nd percentile statewide) than its 77th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Italy ranks 7,358 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,212 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 872 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Italy and the insurance market
Italy's 77th-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.
Hardening a home in Italy
Because 55.7% of Italy's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Italy's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Italy's 7,358-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Italy's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.