Olton, TX
How exposed is Olton to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Olton lands at the 33rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,169 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Olton at the 30th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Olton's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 81.4% of Olton's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 18.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Olton against the rest of the country
Olton's 33rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Olton ranks 21,163 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,838 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,750 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Olton
At the 33rd national percentile, Olton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Olton
With 81.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Olton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,169 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Olton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Olton, see the exposure-zones guide.