Alpine, AZ
Alpine wildfire risk explained
Alpine's 250 buildings earn a 100th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alpine at the 100th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
Where Alpine's buildings actually sit
Of Alpine's 250 counted buildings, 69.6% 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.
Alpine against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Alpine's 100th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Arizona, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alpine ranks 80 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,125 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 7 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Alpine and the insurance market
Alpine's very high rating (100th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Alpine's 69.6% 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
Alpine's 100th-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 Alpine, see the exposure-zones guide.