Ore City, TX
Ore City wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ore City at the 71st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 627 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ore City at the 72nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ore City's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 73.5% of Ore City's 627 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 26.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Ore City ranks
Inside Texas, Ore City sits at just the 34th percentile even though it scores 71st 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, Ore City ranks 9,156 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,487 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,193 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ore City
At the 71st percentile nationally, Ore City carries the 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.
Hardening a home in Ore City
Because 73.5% of Ore City's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Ore City's 71st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ore City, see the exposure-zones guide.