Parks, AZ
Parks wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Parks lands at the 99th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,687 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Parks at the 99th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.9% of Parks's 1,687 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,685 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Parks compares
Parks's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arizona (95th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parks ranks 241 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,467 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 23 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Parks and the insurance market
Parks's very high rating (99th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Parks's 99.9% 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
Parks's 99th-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 Parks, see the exposure-zones guide.