Kearny, AZ
Kearny wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kearny lands at the 79th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,028 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kearny at the 79th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Kearny's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 84.9% of Kearny's 1,028 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 15.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Kearny ranks
Kearny's 79th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 42nd ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 37 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kearny ranks 6,641 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,734 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 257 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kearny
Kearny's high rating (79th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Kearny
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kearny (84.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kearny's 6,641-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kearny, see the exposure-zones guide.