Rocksprings, TX
How exposed is Rocksprings to wildfire?
USFS scores Rocksprings at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 847 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 Rocksprings at the 71st percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Where Rocksprings's buildings actually sit
Most of Rocksprings's buildings (76.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Rocksprings compares
Rocksprings ranks lower within Texas (46th percentile statewide) than its 75th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rocksprings ranks 7,957 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,197 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 974 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
Rocksprings's 75th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Rocksprings
Because 76.7% of Rocksprings'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.
Where Rocksprings's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rocksprings's 7,957-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rocksprings's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.