Hondah, AZ
Hondah wildfire risk explained
Hondah's 233 buildings earn a 99th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hondah at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Hondah's buildings actually sit
Of Hondah's 233 counted buildings, 91% 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.
How Hondah compares
There's little gap between Hondah's 99th national percentile and its 94th percentile inside Arizona, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hondah ranks 365 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,694 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 28 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Hondah and the insurance market
At the 99th percentile nationally, Hondah carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91% of Hondah 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hondah's 365-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hondah, see the exposure-zones guide.