Little Cypress, TX
Little Cypress, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Little Cypress's 1,187 buildings earn a 90th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Little Cypress at the 91st percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Little Cypress's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 56.4% of Little Cypress's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 43.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 669 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Little Cypress against the rest of the country
Little Cypress scores 90th nationally and 84th 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, Little Cypress ranks 3,161 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,727 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 292 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Little Cypress and the insurance market
At the 90th percentile nationally, Little Cypress 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.
Hardening a home in Little Cypress
Little Cypress's 56.4% 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.
Where Little Cypress's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Little Cypress's 3,161-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Little Cypress's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.