Scissors, TX
Scissors, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Scissors at the 56th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,122 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 Scissors at the 57th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Scissors rates 82.1% Minimal exposure against just 17.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,122 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Scissors compares
Inside Texas, Scissors sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 56th 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, Scissors ranks 13,754 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,146 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,598 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 56th national percentile, Scissors rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Scissors
Even with 82.1% of Scissors outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Scissors's 13,754-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Scissors, see the exposure-zones guide.