Rice Tracts, TX
Rice Tracts, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rice Tracts's 303 buildings earn a 77th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rice Tracts at the 79th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rice Tracts's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Rice Tracts's 303 counted buildings, 99% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Rice Tracts against the rest of the country
Rice Tracts ranks lower within Texas (52nd percentile statewide) than its 77th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rice Tracts ranks 7,292 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,555 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 863 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rice Tracts
Rice Tracts's 77th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Rice Tracts (99%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 303 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rice Tracts. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rice Tracts, see the exposure-zones guide.