Marion, TX
Marion wildfire risk explained
Marion sits at the 67th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 630 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Marion's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
Marion's building exposure, zone by zone
Marion rates 72.2% Minimal exposure against just 27.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 630 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Marion compares
Marion's 67th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 24th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marion ranks 10,415 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,360 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Marion
Marion's 67th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 72.2% of Marion outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Marion's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marion's 10,415-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Marion's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.