Glendale, AZ
How exposed is Glendale to wildfire?
USFS scores Glendale at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 76,436 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Glendale at the 60th national percentile — 1 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
Most of Glendale's buildings (91.2% of 76,436) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 76,436 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Glendale compares
Glendale's 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 27th ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 34 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glendale ranks 12,406 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 97 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 324 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Glendale and the insurance market
Glendale's high rating (61st 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
With 91.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Glendale gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Glendale's figures come from
Glendale's 61st-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 Glendale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.