Brownsville, FL
How exposed is Brownsville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brownsville lands at the 46th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,610 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brownsville at the 56th percentile, higher than its 46th-percentile risk score, because relatively few of its buildings sit in harm's way.
Where Brownsville's buildings actually sit
Only 4.7% of Brownsville's 4,610 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Brownsville compares
Inside Florida, Brownsville sits at just the 2nd percentile even though it scores 46th 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, Brownsville ranks 17,105 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,690 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 939 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brownsville
At the 46th national percentile, Brownsville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Brownsville's 95.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,610 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brownsville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brownsville, see the exposure-zones guide.