Study Butte, TX
Study Butte, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Study Butte at the 67th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 327 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Study Butte at the 66th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Study Butte's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 64.5% of Study Butte's 327 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 35.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Study Butte ranks
Study Butte ranks lower within Texas (24th percentile statewide) than its 67th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Study Butte ranks 10,543 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,903 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,369 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Study Butte
Study Butte's 67th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 64.5% of Study Butte's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Study Butte's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Study Butte's 10,543-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Study Butte's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.