Needville, TX
How exposed is Needville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Needville lands at the 71st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,610 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Needville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
Needville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 65.5% of Needville's 1,610 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.8% Direct and 1.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Needville ranks
Needville's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 33rd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Needville ranks 9,185 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,732 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,195 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Needville and the insurance market
Needville's 71st-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
Because 65.5% of Needville'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.
Where Needville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Needville's 9,185-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Needville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.