Rice, TX
Rice wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Rice at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 558 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 Rice at the 82nd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Rice's 558 counted buildings, 53.8% 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.
Where Rice ranks
Rice's 81st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 64th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rice ranks 6,035 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,448 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 658 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rice
Rice's very high rating (81st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Rice
Rice's 53.8% 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.
Where Rice's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rice's 6,035-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rice's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.