Poynor, TX
Poynor, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Poynor at the 79th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 248 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Poynor at the 80th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Where Poynor's buildings actually sit
81.1% of Poynor's 248 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 201 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 19% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Poynor against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Poynor sits at just the 58th percentile even though it scores 79th 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, Poynor ranks 6,726 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,228 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 751 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Poynor
At the 79th percentile nationally, Poynor 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Poynor's 81.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Poynor's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Poynor, see the exposure-zones guide.