St. Johns (Maricopa), AZ
How exposed is St. Johns (Maricopa) to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, St. Johns (Maricopa) lands at the 98th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 212 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts St. Johns (Maricopa) at the 98th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Where St. Johns (Maricopa)'s buildings actually sit
Of St. Johns (Maricopa)'s 212 counted buildings, 99.5% 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.
Where St. Johns (Maricopa) ranks
St. Johns (Maricopa) scores 98th nationally and 87th 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, St. Johns (Maricopa) ranks 651 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,385 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 56 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
St. Johns (Maricopa) and the insurance market
St. Johns (Maricopa)'s 98th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
St. Johns (Maricopa)'s 99.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where St. Johns (Maricopa)'s figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 212 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for St. Johns (Maricopa). The exposure-zones guide covers what St. Johns (Maricopa)'s dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.