Orange, TX
Orange wildfire risk explained
Orange's 9,061 buildings earn a 93rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Orange at the 92nd percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Orange's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 63.6% of Orange's 9,061 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 20.1% Direct and 16.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 9,061 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Orange compares
There's little gap between Orange's 93rd national percentile and its 91st percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orange ranks 2,187 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,830 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 158 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orange
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Orange carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Orange's 63.6% 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.
Where Orange's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orange's 2,187-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Orange's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.