Tanque Verde, AZ
How exposed is Tanque Verde to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Tanque Verde lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 10,066 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 Tanque Verde at the 86th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Tanque Verde: 61.3% of its 10,066 buildings, versus 28.1% Indirect and 10.6% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 10,066 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Tanque Verde against the rest of the country
Tanque Verde's 87th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 59th ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tanque Verde ranks 4,179 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,595 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 183 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tanque Verde
Tanque Verde's very high rating (87th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 61.3% of Tanque Verde 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 Tanque Verde's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,066 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tanque Verde. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tanque Verde's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.