Rosita, TX
Rosita, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Rosita at the 63rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,777 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rosita at the 62nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rosita's building exposure, zone by zone
1,777 buildings are counted in Rosita, and 73% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 27% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Rosita against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Rosita sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 63rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rosita ranks 11,583 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,136 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,461 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Rosita and the insurance market
Rosita'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 73% of Rosita'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 Rosita's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,777 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rosita. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rosita's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.