Pasadena, TX
Pasadena, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pasadena lands at the 65th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 48,850 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pasadena at the 68th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pasadena's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 86.9% of Pasadena's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.7% Direct and 11.5% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 48,850 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Pasadena compares
Inside Texas, Pasadena sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 65th 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, Pasadena ranks 10,952 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 182 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,410 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
Pasadena's high rating (65th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 86.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pasadena gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Pasadena's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pasadena's 10,952-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pasadena's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.