Shumway, AZ
How exposed is Shumway to wildfire?
Shumway's 196 buildings earn a 84th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Shumway at the 81st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Shumway's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Shumway's 196 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Shumway compares
Inside Arizona, Shumway sits at just the 51st 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, Shumway ranks 5,159 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,984 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 215 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shumway and the insurance market
Shumway's 84th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Shumway 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.
Where Shumway's figures come from
Shumway's 84th-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 Shumway's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.