Green Valley, AZ
How exposed is Green Valley to wildfire?
Green Valley's 12,611 buildings earn a 88th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Green Valley at the 86th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Green Valley's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 68.9% of Green Valley's 12,611 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 14.8% Direct and 16.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 12,611 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Green Valley compares
Inside Arizona, Green Valley sits at just the 60th percentile even though it scores 88th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green Valley ranks 3,801 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,215 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 175 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Green Valley
Green Valley's 88th-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.
Hardening a home in Green Valley
Because 68.9% of Green Valley'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.
Where Green Valley's figures come from
Green Valley's 88th-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 Green Valley's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.