Dateland, AZ
Dateland, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Dateland at the 48th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 278 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dateland at the 50th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Dateland: 89.6% of its 278 buildings, versus 10.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Dateland against the rest of the country
Inside Arizona, Dateland sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 48th 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, Dateland ranks 16,282 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,251 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 369 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dateland
Dateland's elevated wildfire rating (48th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 89.6% of Dateland in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 278 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dateland. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dateland, see the exposure-zones guide.