Scurry, TX
How exposed is Scurry to wildfire?
Scurry's 518 buildings earn a 78th-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 Scurry at the 79th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Scurry: 83.4% of its 518 buildings, versus 16.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Scurry ranks
Inside Texas, Scurry sits at just the 57th percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Scurry ranks 6,855 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,058 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 780 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
Scurry's high rating (78th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Scurry's 83.4% 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 Scurry's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Scurry's 6,855-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Scurry's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.