Mineola, TX
Mineola, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mineola lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,548 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mineola at the 72nd percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Mineola's building exposure, zone by zone
80.1% of Mineola's 2,548 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 13% Direct and 7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Mineola against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Mineola sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 70th 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, Mineola ranks 9,402 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,206 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,235 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mineola
At the 70th percentile nationally, Mineola 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.
Hardening a home in Mineola
Because 80.1% of Mineola's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mineola's 9,402-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mineola, see the exposure-zones guide.