Dennehotso, AZ
How exposed is Dennehotso to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dennehotso lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 327 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dennehotso at the 17th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Dennehotso's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 91.4% of Dennehotso's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 8.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 299 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Dennehotso ranks
Inside Arizona, Dennehotso sits at just the 2nd percentile even though it scores 17th 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, Dennehotso ranks 26,210 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,887 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 434 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dennehotso
At the 17th national percentile, Dennehotso rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Dennehotso
Dennehotso's 91.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dennehotso's 26,210-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dennehotso, see the exposure-zones guide.