Rock Island, TX
How exposed is Rock Island to wildfire?
Rock Island sits at the 74th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 271 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rock Island at the 76th percentile, close to its 74th-percentile risk score.
Where Rock Island's buildings actually sit
Of Rock Island's 271 counted buildings, 80.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Rock Island compares
Rock Island's 74th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 44th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rock Island ranks 8,146 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,486 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,011 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rock Island
Rock Island's high rating (74th 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 80.4% of Rock Island in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Rock Island's 74th-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 Rock Island, see the exposure-zones guide.