Sacate Village, AZ
How exposed is Sacate Village to wildfire?
USFS scores Sacate Village at the 83rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 92 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sacate Village at the 85th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sacate Village's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of Sacate Village's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 92 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Sacate Village ranks
Inside Arizona, Sacate Village sits at just the 49th percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Sacate Village ranks 5,411 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,386 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 224 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sacate Village
Sacate Village's 83rd-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 100% of Sacate Village in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 92 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sacate Village. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sacate Village, see the exposure-zones guide.