Six Shooter Canyon, AZ
How exposed is Six Shooter Canyon to wildfire?
Six Shooter Canyon's 589 buildings earn a 97th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Six Shooter Canyon at the 97th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Where Six Shooter Canyon's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 58.6% of Six Shooter Canyon's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 41.4% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 345 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Six Shooter Canyon ranks
Six Shooter Canyon scores 97th nationally and 83rd within Arizona — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Six Shooter Canyon ranks 932 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,970 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 75 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Six Shooter Canyon and the insurance market
Six Shooter Canyon's 97th-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 58.6% of Six Shooter Canyon 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 Six Shooter Canyon's figures come from
Six Shooter Canyon's 97th-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 Six Shooter Canyon's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.