Orange Grove, TX
Orange Grove, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Orange Grove sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 782 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Orange Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
Orange Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 80.3% of Orange Grove's 782 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 15.7% Direct and 4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Orange Grove compares
Orange Grove ranks lower within Texas (15th percentile statewide) than its 61st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orange Grove ranks 12,367 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,799 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,523 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Orange Grove's 61st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Orange Grove's 80.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 782 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Orange Grove. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Orange Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.