Geronimo Estates, AZ
How exposed is Geronimo Estates to wildfire?
USFS scores Geronimo Estates at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 92 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Geronimo Estates at the 100th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Geronimo Estates's 92 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Geronimo Estates ranks
Geronimo Estates scores 100th nationally and 99th within Arizona — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Geronimo Estates ranks 49 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,385 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 5 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Geronimo Estates's 100th-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
With 100% of Geronimo Estates in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Geronimo Estates's figures come from
Geronimo Estates's 100th-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 Geronimo Estates's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.