Mauriceville, TX
Mauriceville, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mauriceville at the 86th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 2,014 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mauriceville at the 89th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 85.8% of Mauriceville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 14.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 1,727 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Mauriceville against the rest of the country
Mauriceville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (76th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mauriceville ranks 4,359 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,436 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 431 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
Mauriceville'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Mauriceville (85.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Mauriceville's 86th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mauriceville, see the exposure-zones guide.