Rosenberg, TX
How exposed is Rosenberg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rosenberg at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 13,090 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rosenberg at the 65th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Where Rosenberg's buildings actually sit
Rosenberg rates 66.8% Minimal exposure against just 13.4% Direct and 19.7% Indirect — of 13,090 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 13,090 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Rosenberg compares
Rosenberg's 63rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 18th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rosenberg ranks 11,737 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,166 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,469 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rosenberg
Rosenberg's 63rd-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 Rosenberg
Rosenberg's 66.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Rosenberg's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13,090 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rosenberg. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rosenberg's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.