Petersburg, TX
How exposed is Petersburg to wildfire?
Petersburg's 745 buildings earn a 62nd-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Petersburg at the 57th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Petersburg's buildings actually sit
Petersburg rates 82.8% Minimal exposure against just 17.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 745 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Petersburg compares
Inside Texas, Petersburg sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 62nd 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, Petersburg ranks 12,015 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,179 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,496 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Petersburg
At the 62nd percentile nationally, Petersburg carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 82.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Petersburg gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Petersburg's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Petersburg's 12,015-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Petersburg's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.