WildfireRiskFinder

Red Rock (Apache), AZ

How exposed is Red Rock (Apache) to wildfire?

Moderate
37thpercentile nationally

USFS scores Red Rock (Apache) at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 88 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Separately from the risk score above, Red Rock (Apache)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 44th percentile nationally.

What "at risk" means for the buildings here

88Total buildings
100%Direct exposure
0%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

Direct exposure dominates in Red Rock (Apache): 100% of its 88 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.

Red Rock (Apache) against the rest of the country

Red Rock (Apache)'s 37th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 10th ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Red Rock (Apache) ranks 19,749 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,561 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 396 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.

Red Rock (Apache) and the insurance market

Red Rock (Apache)'s moderate wildfire rating (37th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.

What would actually reduce this score

Red Rock (Apache)'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.

Where Red Rock (Apache)'s figures come from

Every one of the two percentiles behind Red Rock (Apache)'s 19,749-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Red Rock (Apache)'s dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.