Bullhead City, AZ
Bullhead City, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bullhead City at the 62nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 23,054 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bullhead City at the 65th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Bullhead City's buildings (57.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 23,054 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Bullhead City against the rest of the country
Bullhead City ranks lower within Arizona (28th percentile statewide) than its 62nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bullhead City ranks 11,900 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 571 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 320 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Bullhead City and the insurance market
Bullhead City's high rating (62nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 57.8% of Bullhead City'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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 23,054 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bullhead City. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bullhead City, see the exposure-zones guide.