Laureles, TX
Laureles wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Laureles at the 76th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,478 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Laureles's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
Where Laureles's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Laureles: 71.2% of its 1,478 buildings, versus 14.6% Indirect and 14.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Laureles against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Laureles sits at just the 50th percentile even though it scores 76th 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, Laureles ranks 7,450 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,268 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 894 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Laureles
At the 76th percentile nationally, Laureles carries the 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
Laureles's 71.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Laureles's 7,450-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Laureles, see the exposure-zones guide.