Morning Glory, TX
Morning Glory wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Morning Glory at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 281 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Morning Glory at the 8th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Morning Glory's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 69.8% of Morning Glory's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 30.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Morning Glory ranks
There's little gap between Morning Glory's 9th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Morning Glory ranks 28,666 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,168 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,793 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Morning Glory
Morning Glory's low wildfire rating (9th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Morning Glory
Even with 69.8% of Morning Glory 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 Morning Glory's figures come from
Morning Glory's 9th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Morning Glory's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.