Brazos Country, TX
How exposed is Brazos Country to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brazos Country at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 352 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brazos Country's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Brazos Country's building exposure, zone by zone
99.2% of Brazos Country's 352 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 349 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Brazos Country compares
Brazos Country's 80th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 61st ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brazos Country ranks 6,380 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,270 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 708 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brazos Country
Brazos Country's 80th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Brazos Country's 99.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brazos Country's 6,380-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brazos Country, see the exposure-zones guide.