Lower Santan Village, AZ
Lower Santan Village, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lower Santan Village at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 156 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lower Santan Village at the 83rd national percentile — 5 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lower Santan Village's building exposure, zone by zone
93% of Lower Santan Village's 156 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 145 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 7.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Lower Santan Village compares
Lower Santan Village's 78th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 41st ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lower Santan Village ranks 6,828 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,600 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 262 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Lower Santan Village and the insurance market
Lower Santan Village's high rating (78th 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 Lower Santan Village
Lower Santan Village's 93% 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
Lower Santan Village's 78th-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 Lower Santan Village, see the exposure-zones guide.