Brownfield, TX
Brownfield wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brownfield at the 45th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 4,557 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brownfield at the 44th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Brownfield rates 87.8% Minimal exposure against just 12.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,557 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Brownfield against the rest of the country
Brownfield's 45th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 5th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 41 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownfield ranks 17,319 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,742 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,714 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Brownfield and the insurance market
Brownfield's elevated rating (45th 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 Brownfield
With 87.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brownfield gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,557 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brownfield. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brownfield, see the exposure-zones guide.