Itasca, TX
How exposed is Itasca to wildfire?
USFS scores Itasca at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 858 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Itasca's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 59th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 74.1% of Itasca's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 25.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Itasca ranks
Inside Texas, Itasca sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 62nd 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, Itasca ranks 11,958 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,107 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,486 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Itasca
Itasca's high rating (62nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Itasca
Even with 74.1% of Itasca outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Itasca's 11,958-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Itasca, see the exposure-zones guide.