Orason, TX
Orason, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Orason's 67 buildings earn a 95th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Orason at the 94th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Orason's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Orason: 98.5% of its 67 buildings, versus 1.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Orason against the rest of the country
Orason scores 95th nationally and 95th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orason ranks 1,527 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,404 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 84 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orason
Orason's 95th-percentile, very 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
With 98.5% of Orason in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 67 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Orason. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Orason, see the exposure-zones guide.