Christopher Creek, AZ
Christopher Creek, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Christopher Creek's 202 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 Christopher Creek at the 100th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Christopher Creek's 202 counted buildings, 95.5% 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 Christopher Creek compares
There's little gap between Christopher Creek's 100th national percentile and its 100th percentile inside Arizona, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Christopher Creek ranks 17 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,755 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 1 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Christopher Creek and the insurance market
Christopher Creek's 100th-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
Christopher Creek's 95.5% 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 Christopher Creek's figures come from
Christopher Creek's 100th-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 Christopher Creek's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.