Wenden, AZ
How exposed is Wenden to wildfire?
USFS scores Wenden at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 401 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 Wenden at the 64th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Wenden's building exposure, zone by zone
52.1% of Wenden's 401 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 47.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Wenden ranks
Wenden's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 29th ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 36 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wenden ranks 11,081 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,177 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 314 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wenden
Wenden's 65th-percentile, 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 Wenden (52.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Wenden's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wenden's 11,081-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wenden's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.