Fountain Hills, AZ
Fountain Hills, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fountain Hills at the 89th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 11,234 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fountain Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 87th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Fountain Hills's buildings (71.6%) 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 11,234 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Fountain Hills ranks
Fountain Hills ranks lower within Arizona (61st percentile statewide) than its 89th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fountain Hills ranks 3,488 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,410 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 171 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fountain Hills
Fountain Hills's 89th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 71.6% of Fountain Hills's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fountain Hills's 3,488-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fountain Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.