Morenci, AZ
Morenci, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Morenci at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 908 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Morenci at the 60th national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Morenci's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 98% of Morenci's 908 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Morenci against the rest of the country
Morenci's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 29th 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, Morenci ranks 10,766 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,652 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 312 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Morenci
Morenci's high rating (66th 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 Morenci
Morenci's 98% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Morenci's 10,766-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Morenci, see the exposure-zones guide.