Cornfields, AZ
Cornfields wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Cornfields at the 38th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 80 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cornfields at the 36th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Where Cornfields's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Cornfields: 81.3% of its 80 buildings, versus 18.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Cornfields ranks
Cornfields's 38th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 11th ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cornfields ranks 19,497 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,870 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 393 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Cornfields's moderate rating (38th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Cornfields
Cornfields's 81.3% 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 Cornfields's figures come from
Cornfields's 38th-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 Cornfields's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.