Jakes Corner, AZ
Jakes Corner wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Jakes Corner at the 96th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 69 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 Jakes Corner at the 95th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Jakes Corner's building exposure, zone by zone
69 buildings are counted in Jakes Corner, and 62.3% 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.
Jakes Corner against the rest of the country
Inside Arizona, Jakes Corner sits at just the 77th percentile even though it scores 96th 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, Jakes Corner ranks 1,313 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,298 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 102 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Jakes Corner and the insurance market
Jakes Corner's 96th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Jakes Corner's 62.3% 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
Jakes Corner's 96th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jakes Corner, see the exposure-zones guide.