Venus, TX
Venus, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Venus's 1,721 buildings earn a 76th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Venus at the 73rd percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
Where Venus's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 46.8% of Venus's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 38.4% Direct and 14.9% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Venus compares
Inside Texas, Venus sits at just the 48th percentile even though it scores 76th 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, Venus ranks 7,705 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,336 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 937 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
Venus's high rating (76th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 46.8% of Venus 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.
Where Venus's figures come from
Venus's 76th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Venus's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.