Brazoria, TX
Brazoria wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brazoria at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,548 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brazoria at the 87th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Brazoria's buildings (63.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Brazoria compares
Brazoria's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (70th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (84th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brazoria ranks 5,210 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,962 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 529 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brazoria
Brazoria's 84th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Brazoria
Brazoria's 63.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,548 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brazoria. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brazoria, see the exposure-zones guide.