Dripping Springs, AZ
How exposed is Dripping Springs to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dripping Springs lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 173 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 Dripping Springs at the 88th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Dripping Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Dripping Springs: 100% of its 173 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Dripping Springs ranks
Inside Arizona, Dripping Springs sits at just the 63rd percentile even though it scores 90th 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, Dripping Springs ranks 3,172 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,881 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 162 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Dripping Springs and the insurance market
Dripping Springs's very high rating (90th 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 Dripping Springs
Because Direct exposure dominates in Dripping Springs (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Dripping Springs's figures come from
Dripping Springs's 90th-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 Dripping Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.