Colorado City, AZ
Colorado City, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Colorado City sits at the 78th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,039 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Colorado City at the 74th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Colorado City's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 66.2% of Colorado City's 1,039 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 33.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Colorado City compares
Inside Arizona, Colorado City sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Colorado City ranks 6,797 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,659 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 261 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Colorado City and the insurance market
Colorado City's high rating (78th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 66.2% of Colorado 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Colorado City's 6,797-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Colorado City, see the exposure-zones guide.