Bloomburg, TX
Bloomburg wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bloomburg lands at the 78th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 276 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 Bloomburg at the 80th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Bloomburg's building exposure, zone by zone
276 buildings are counted in Bloomburg, and 56.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Bloomburg compares
Inside Texas, Bloomburg sits at just the 56th 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, Bloomburg ranks 6,882 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,340 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 782 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bloomburg
Bloomburg'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.
Hardening a home in Bloomburg
With 56.9% of Bloomburg in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 276 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bloomburg. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bloomburg, see the exposure-zones guide.