Dewey-Humboldt, AZ
How exposed is Dewey-Humboldt to wildfire?
USFS scores Dewey-Humboldt at the 96th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 3,153 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dewey-Humboldt's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
Dewey-Humboldt's building exposure, zone by zone
90.9% of Dewey-Humboldt's 3,153 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,865 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 9.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Dewey-Humboldt ranks
Inside Arizona, Dewey-Humboldt sits at just the 78th percentile even though it scores 96th 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, Dewey-Humboldt ranks 1,279 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,225 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 99 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Dewey-Humboldt and the insurance market
Dewey-Humboldt's very high rating (96th 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.
Hardening a home in Dewey-Humboldt
Dewey-Humboldt's 90.9% 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
Dewey-Humboldt's 96th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dewey-Humboldt, see the exposure-zones guide.