College Station, TX
How exposed is College Station to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts College Station at the 67th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 27,353 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks College Station at the 69th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
College Station's building exposure, zone by zone
47.3% of College Station's 27,353 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 10.9% Direct and 41.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 27,353 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How College Station compares
College Station ranks lower within Texas (24th percentile statewide) than its 67th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, College Station ranks 10,478 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 449 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,362 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
College Station's high rating (67th 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 47.3% of College Station'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 College Station's 10,478-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond College Station, see the exposure-zones guide.