Rochelle, TX
How exposed is Rochelle to wildfire?
Rochelle's 192 buildings earn a 91st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rochelle at the 90th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rochelle's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 71.4% of Rochelle's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 28.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 137 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Rochelle compares
There's little gap between Rochelle's 91st national percentile and its 85th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rochelle ranks 2,973 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,177 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 271 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rochelle
At the 91st percentile nationally, Rochelle carries the very 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Rochelle's 71.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Rochelle's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rochelle, see the exposure-zones guide.