Peeples Valley, AZ
Peeples Valley wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Peeples Valley lands at the 92nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 503 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Peeples Valley at the 88th percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
503 buildings are counted in Peeples Valley, and 82.3% 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 Peeples Valley compares
Inside Arizona, Peeples Valley sits at just the 67th percentile even though it scores 92nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Peeples Valley ranks 2,540 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,277 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 148 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Peeples Valley
Peeples Valley's very high rating (92nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Peeples Valley's 82.3% 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
Peeples Valley's 92nd-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 Peeples Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.