Valle Vista, AZ
Valle Vista, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Valle Vista at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,108 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Valle Vista at the 69th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Valle Vista's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Valle Vista's 1,108 counted buildings, 60.5% 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 Valle Vista ranks
Inside Arizona, Valle Vista sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 70th 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, Valle Vista ranks 9,317 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,230 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 294 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 70th percentile nationally, Valle Vista carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 60.5% of Valle Vista 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Valle Vista's 9,317-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Valle Vista, see the exposure-zones guide.