Peoria, AZ
Peoria, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Peoria sits at the 84th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 69,561 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Peoria's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
Where Peoria's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 67.1% of Peoria's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.5% Direct and 25.5% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 69,561 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Peoria compares
Inside Arizona, Peoria sits at just the 54th percentile even though it scores 84th 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, Peoria ranks 4,935 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 115 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 205 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Peoria
Peoria's 84th-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
With 67.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Peoria gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Peoria's 4,935-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Peoria, see the exposure-zones guide.