Nutrioso, AZ
Nutrioso, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Nutrioso at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 59 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nutrioso at the 99th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
59 buildings are counted in Nutrioso, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Nutrioso compares
Nutrioso scores 99th nationally and 95th within Arizona — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nutrioso ranks 207 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,671 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 22 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Nutrioso's 99th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Nutrioso's 100% 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 Nutrioso's 207-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nutrioso, see the exposure-zones guide.