Nocona Hills, TX
How exposed is Nocona Hills to wildfire?
USFS scores Nocona Hills at the 89th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 860 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nocona Hills at the 90th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Where Nocona Hills's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Nocona Hills: 81.3% of its 860 buildings, versus 10% Indirect and 8.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Nocona Hills compares
Nocona Hills's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (83rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nocona Hills ranks 3,353 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,087 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 313 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nocona Hills
Nocona Hills's very high rating (89th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Nocona Hills's 81.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Nocona Hills's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 860 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Nocona Hills. The exposure-zones guide covers what Nocona Hills's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.