Upper Santan Village, AZ
Upper Santan Village, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Upper Santan Village's 203 buildings earn a 79th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Upper Santan Village at the 82nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Upper Santan Village's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 98.5% of Upper Santan Village's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 1.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 200 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Upper Santan Village compares
Inside Arizona, Upper Santan Village sits at just the 43rd percentile even though it scores 79th 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, Upper Santan Village ranks 6,513 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,716 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 253 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Upper Santan Village
Upper Santan Village's high rating (79th 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 98.5% of Upper Santan Village 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 203 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Upper Santan Village. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Upper Santan Village, see the exposure-zones guide.