Keams Canyon, AZ
Keams Canyon, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Keams Canyon's 226 buildings earn a 46th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Keams Canyon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
Keams Canyon's building exposure, zone by zone
65.9% of Keams Canyon's 226 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 149 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 34.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Keams Canyon ranks
Inside Arizona, Keams Canyon sits at just the 15th percentile even though it scores 46th 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, Keams Canyon ranks 16,944 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,904 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 375 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
Keams Canyon's elevated rating (46th 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 Keams Canyon
Keams Canyon's 65.9% 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 Keams Canyon's 16,944-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Keams Canyon, see the exposure-zones guide.