El Mirage, AZ
El Mirage wildfire risk explained
USFS scores El Mirage at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 11,888 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, El Mirage's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
El Mirage's building exposure, zone by zone
El Mirage rates 93% Minimal exposure against just 7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 11,888 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 11,888 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How El Mirage compares
Inside Arizona, El Mirage sits at just the 15th percentile even though it scores 46th 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, El Mirage ranks 16,914 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,314 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 373 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in El Mirage
At the 46th national percentile, El Mirage rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 93% of El Mirage outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
El Mirage's 46th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond El Mirage, see the exposure-zones guide.