Superior, AZ
How exposed is Superior to wildfire?
Superior's 1,813 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 Superior at the 95th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 82.3% of Superior's 1,813 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 17.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Superior ranks
Superior ranks lower within Arizona (80th percentile statewide) than its 97th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Superior ranks 1,092 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,021 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 91 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Superior
Superior'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Superior (82.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Superior's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Superior's 1,092-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Superior's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.