Scottsville, TX
Scottsville, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Scottsville lands at the 74th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 176 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Scottsville at the 75th percentile, close to its 74th-percentile risk score.
Where Scottsville's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Scottsville: 91.5% of its 176 buildings, versus 8.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Scottsville against the rest of the country
Scottsville ranks lower within Texas (42nd percentile statewide) than its 74th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Scottsville ranks 8,273 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,806 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,040 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Scottsville and the insurance market
Scottsville's 74th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Scottsville's 91.5% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Scottsville's 8,273-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Scottsville, see the exposure-zones guide.