Bisbee, AZ
Bisbee wildfire risk explained
Bisbee's 3,671 buildings earn a 97th-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 Bisbee at the 97th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Bisbee's building exposure, zone by zone
3,671 buildings are counted in Bisbee, and 66.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 33.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Bisbee compares
Bisbee's 97th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 80th ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bisbee ranks 1,090 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,559 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 89 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Bisbee and the insurance market
Bisbee's 97th-percentile, very 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
Bisbee's 66.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,671 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bisbee. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bisbee, see the exposure-zones guide.