Jayton, TX
Jayton wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jayton lands at the 92nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 509 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jayton at the 91st percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Jayton's building exposure, zone by zone
509 buildings are counted in Jayton, and 58.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 41.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Jayton ranks
Jayton scores 92nd nationally and 89th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jayton ranks 2,503 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,201 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 192 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
Jayton's very high rating (92nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 58.7% of Jayton'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jayton's 2,503-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jayton, see the exposure-zones guide.