Normanna, TX
Normanna wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Normanna lands at the 80th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 127 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Normanna at the 80th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Normanna's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Normanna: 74% of its 127 buildings, versus 26% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Normanna against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Normanna sits at just the 61st percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Normanna ranks 6,382 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,875 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 710 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Normanna and the insurance market
Normanna's 80th-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.
Hardening a home in Normanna
Normanna's 74% 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 Normanna's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 127 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Normanna. The exposure-zones guide covers what Normanna's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.