Mountain View Ranches, AZ
Mountain View Ranches, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mountain View Ranches's 1,081 buildings earn a 98th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mountain View Ranches's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 97th percentile nationally.
Where Mountain View Ranches's buildings actually sit
Of Mountain View Ranches's 1,081 counted buildings, 95.5% 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.
Mountain View Ranches against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Mountain View Ranches's 98th national percentile and its 85th percentile inside Arizona, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mountain View Ranches ranks 746 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,402 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 65 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Mountain View Ranches and the insurance market
At the 98th percentile nationally, Mountain View Ranches carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Mountain View Ranches
Mountain View Ranches's 95.5% 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.
Where Mountain View Ranches's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,081 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mountain View Ranches. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mountain View Ranches's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.