Princeton, TX
Princeton, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Princeton's 6,345 buildings earn a 70th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Princeton at the 70th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Princeton's building exposure, zone by zone
6,345 buildings are counted in Princeton, and 69% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 17.9% in Direct exposure or the 13.1% rated Minimal. At 6,345 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Princeton ranks
Princeton's 70th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 31st ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 39 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Princeton ranks 9,403 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,729 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,236 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Princeton
Princeton's 70th-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Princeton
Because 69% of Princeton'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,345 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Princeton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Princeton, see the exposure-zones guide.