Kountze, TX
Kountze, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kountze sits at the 86th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,332 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kountze's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
Where Kountze's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 60.3% of Kountze's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 39.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 803 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Kountze against the rest of the country
Kountze scores 86th nationally and 75th 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, Kountze ranks 4,485 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,921 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 447 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Kountze and the insurance market
Kountze's 86th-percentile, very 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 Kountze
With 60.3% of Kountze in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kountze's 4,485-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kountze, see the exposure-zones guide.