Clarkdale, AZ
How exposed is Clarkdale to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Clarkdale lands at the 92nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 2,287 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clarkdale at the 90th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Clarkdale's buildings actually sit
Most of Clarkdale's buildings (73.5%) 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.
Where Clarkdale ranks
Inside Arizona, Clarkdale sits at just the 69th percentile even though it scores 92nd 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, Clarkdale ranks 2,382 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,730 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 136 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Clarkdale and the insurance market
Clarkdale's 92nd-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.
Hardening a home in Clarkdale
Because 73.5% of Clarkdale'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.
Where Clarkdale's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,287 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Clarkdale. The exposure-zones guide covers what Clarkdale's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.