Sahuarita, AZ
How exposed is Sahuarita to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sahuarita lands at the 84th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 12,368 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sahuarita at the 82nd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sahuarita's buildings actually sit
Most of Sahuarita's buildings (64.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 12,368 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Sahuarita ranks
Inside Arizona, Sahuarita sits at just the 53rd 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, Sahuarita ranks 5,001 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,247 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 208 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Sahuarita and the insurance market
At the 84th percentile nationally, Sahuarita carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Sahuarita
Sahuarita's 64.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Sahuarita's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sahuarita's 5,001-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sahuarita's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.