Jasper, TX
How exposed is Jasper to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Jasper at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 4,053 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jasper at the 83rd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Jasper's building exposure, zone by zone
4,053 buildings are counted in Jasper, and 62.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 37.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Jasper compares
Inside Texas, Jasper sits at just the 63rd percentile even though it scores 81st 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, Jasper ranks 6,095 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,187 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 664 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jasper
At the 81st percentile nationally, Jasper carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 62.8% of Jasper'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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,053 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jasper. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jasper, see the exposure-zones guide.