Brookshire, TX
How exposed is Brookshire to wildfire?
Brookshire's 1,877 buildings earn a 74th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brookshire at the 77th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brookshire's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Brookshire (55.6% of 1,877 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 44.4% sit in the Direct zone.
How Brookshire compares
Brookshire's 74th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 43rd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookshire ranks 8,174 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,832 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,016 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
Brookshire's high rating (74th 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
Because 55.6% of Brookshire's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brookshire's 8,174-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brookshire, see the exposure-zones guide.