Pettus, TX
Pettus wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Pettus at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 425 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pettus at the 76th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Where Pettus's buildings actually sit
Most of Pettus's buildings (53.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Pettus compares
Inside Texas, Pettus sits at just the 55th percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Pettus ranks 7,075 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,752 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 821 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Pettus and the insurance market
At the 78th percentile nationally, Pettus 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 Pettus
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pettus (53.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 425 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pettus. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pettus, see the exposure-zones guide.