Hotevilla-Bacavi, AZ
Hotevilla-Bacavi wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Hotevilla-Bacavi at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 463 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hotevilla-Bacavi at the 28th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Hotevilla-Bacavi's building exposure, zone by zone
463 buildings are counted in Hotevilla-Bacavi, and 70.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Hotevilla-Bacavi compares
Inside Arizona, Hotevilla-Bacavi sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 28th 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, Hotevilla-Bacavi ranks 22,524 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,001 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 408 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hotevilla-Bacavi
Hotevilla-Bacavi's moderate wildfire rating (28th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Hotevilla-Bacavi's 70.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 463 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hotevilla-Bacavi. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hotevilla-Bacavi, see the exposure-zones guide.