Brackettville, TX
Brackettville wildfire risk explained
Brackettville's 1,243 buildings earn a 58th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brackettville at the 57th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brackettville's building exposure, zone by zone
1,243 buildings are counted in Brackettville, and 94.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 5.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Brackettville compares
Inside Texas, Brackettville sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Brackettville ranks 13,189 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,385 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,572 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Brackettville and the insurance market
Brackettville's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Brackettville
Brackettville's 94.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Brackettville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,243 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brackettville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brackettville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.