Blue Ridge, AZ
Blue Ridge wildfire risk explained
Blue Ridge sits at the 99th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,971 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blue Ridge at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Blue Ridge's 1,971 counted buildings, 100% 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.
How Blue Ridge compares
Blue Ridge scores 99th nationally and 95th within Arizona — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Ridge ranks 270 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,556 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 25 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge's very high rating (99th 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.
Hardening a home in Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge's 100% 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.
Where Blue Ridge's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blue Ridge's 270-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blue Ridge's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.