Flowing Wells, AZ
Flowing Wells, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Flowing Wells lands at the 65th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 8,181 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 Flowing Wells at the 60th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Where Flowing Wells's buildings actually sit
Flowing Wells rates 98.6% Minimal exposure against just 1.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 8,181 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 8,181 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Flowing Wells ranks
Flowing Wells ranks lower within Arizona (29th percentile statewide) than its 65th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Flowing Wells ranks 11,147 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,049 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 315 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Flowing Wells and the insurance market
Flowing Wells's high rating (65th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 98.6% of Flowing Wells 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,181 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Flowing Wells. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Flowing Wells, see the exposure-zones guide.