Sacaton Flats Village, AZ
Sacaton Flats Village, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Sacaton Flats Village at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 232 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sacaton Flats Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
232 buildings are counted in Sacaton Flats Village, and 86.2% 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.
Sacaton Flats Village against the rest of the country
Sacaton Flats Village ranks lower within Arizona (46th percentile statewide) than its 81st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sacaton Flats Village ranks 6,043 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,721 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 241 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Sacaton Flats Village and the insurance market
Sacaton Flats Village's 81st-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.
Hardening a home in Sacaton Flats Village
Sacaton Flats Village's 86.2% 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 Sacaton Flats Village's figures come from
Sacaton Flats Village's 81st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sacaton Flats Village's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.