Arizona City, AZ
Arizona City wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Arizona City at the 68th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 4,960 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Arizona City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 71st percentile nationally.
Where Arizona City's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 50% of Arizona City's 4,960 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 45.5% Direct and 4.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Arizona City compares
Inside Arizona, Arizona City sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 68th 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, Arizona City ranks 10,232 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,458 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 306 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Arizona City
Arizona City's 68th-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 Arizona City
Arizona City's 50% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Arizona City's figures come from
Arizona City's 68th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Arizona City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.