Drexel Heights, AZ
Drexel Heights, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Drexel Heights's 11,856 buildings earn a 81st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Drexel Heights at the 77th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Drexel Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Drexel Heights's buildings (51.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 11,856 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Drexel Heights against the rest of the country
Drexel Heights ranks lower within Arizona (45th percentile statewide) than its 81st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Drexel Heights ranks 6,072 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,317 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 242 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Drexel Heights and the insurance market
Drexel Heights's 81st-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Drexel Heights
Drexel Heights's 51.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Drexel Heights's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Drexel Heights's 6,072-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Drexel Heights's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.