Salome, AZ
Salome wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Salome at the 58th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,591 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Salome at the 55th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 56.4% of Salome's 1,591 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 43.4% Direct and 0.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Salome against the rest of the country
Inside Arizona, Salome sits at just the 25th percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Salome ranks 13,290 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,794 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 333 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Salome
At the 58th national percentile, Salome rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Salome's 56.4% 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 Salome's figures come from
Salome's 58th-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 Salome's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.