Mound, TX
How exposed is Mound to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mound at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 119 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 Mound at the 89th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
119 buildings are counted in Mound, and 99.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Mound compares
Mound scores 90th nationally and 83rd 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, Mound ranks 3,225 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,219 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 298 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Mound and the insurance market
At the 90th percentile nationally, Mound 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 Mound
With 99.2% of Mound in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Mound's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 119 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mound. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mound's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.