Prescott Valley, AZ
Prescott Valley wildfire risk explained
Prescott Valley's 18,345 buildings earn a 92nd-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, Prescott Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
Prescott Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Prescott Valley (72.2% of 18,345 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 21.3% sit in the Direct zone. At 18,345 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Prescott Valley against the rest of the country
Inside Arizona, Prescott Valley sits at just the 68th 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, Prescott Valley ranks 2,445 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 778 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 141 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Prescott Valley
Prescott 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
Because 72.2% of Prescott Valley's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Prescott Valley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Prescott Valley's 2,445-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Prescott Valley's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.