Staples, TX
Staples wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Staples at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 197 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Staples at the 67th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Staples's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 84.8% of Staples's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 15.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 167 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Staples compares
Staples's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 23rd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Staples ranks 10,762 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,981 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,387 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Staples and the insurance market
Staples's high rating (66th 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
Staples's 84.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Staples's 10,762-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Staples, see the exposure-zones guide.