Claypool, AZ
How exposed is Claypool to wildfire?
Claypool sits at the 93rd 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 1,008 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Claypool at the 91st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Claypool's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Claypool (80.3% of 1,008 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.7% sit in the Direct zone.
How Claypool compares
Inside Arizona, Claypool sits at just the 71st percentile even though it scores 93rd 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, Claypool ranks 2,130 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,876 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 128 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Claypool
Claypool's 93rd-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
Claypool's 80.3% 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.
Where Claypool's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Claypool's 2,130-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Claypool's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.