Greasewood, AZ
Greasewood wildfire risk explained
Greasewood's 234 buildings earn a 22nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Greasewood at the 25th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
Where Greasewood's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 68% of Greasewood's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 32.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 159 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Greasewood compares
Greasewood's 22nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greasewood ranks 24,508 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,654 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 426 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
Greasewood's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Greasewood
Greasewood's 68% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greasewood's 24,508-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Greasewood, see the exposure-zones guide.