Queen City, TX
How exposed is Queen City to wildfire?
USFS scores Queen City at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 989 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Queen City at the 75th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 56.6% of Queen City's 989 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 43.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Queen City against the rest of the country
Queen City's 73rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 41st ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Queen City ranks 8,393 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,019 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,060 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Queen City and the insurance market
Queen City's high rating (73rd 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 56.6% of Queen City'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
Queen City's 73rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Queen City, see the exposure-zones guide.