Show Low, AZ
How exposed is Show Low to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Show Low at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 7,627 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Show Low at the 93rd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Show Low's building exposure, zone by zone
7,627 buildings are counted in Show Low, and 59.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 40.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal. At 7,627 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Show Low compares
Show Low ranks lower within Arizona (75th percentile statewide) than its 95th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Show Low ranks 1,562 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,238 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 110 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Show Low and the insurance market
At the 95th percentile nationally, Show Low 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 Show Low
Because 59.4% of Show Low's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Show Low's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,627 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Show Low. The exposure-zones guide covers what Show Low's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.