Littlefield, AZ
Littlefield wildfire risk explained
Littlefield sits at the 95th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 204 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Littlefield at the 95th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Littlefield's 204 counted buildings, 91.7% 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 Littlefield compares
Littlefield ranks lower within Arizona (75th percentile statewide) than its 95th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Littlefield ranks 1,626 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,684 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 113 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Littlefield
Littlefield's 95th-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
Littlefield's 91.7% 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 Littlefield's 1,626-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Littlefield, see the exposure-zones guide.