Washington Park, AZ
How exposed is Washington Park to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Washington Park lands at the 100th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 179 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 Washington Park at the 100th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
100% of Washington Park's 179 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 179 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Washington Park ranks
Washington Park scores 100th nationally and 100th 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, Washington Park ranks 20 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,657 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 4 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Washington Park and the insurance market
Washington Park's 100th-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.
Hardening a home in Washington Park
Washington Park's 100% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 179 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Washington Park. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Washington Park, see the exposure-zones guide.