Wittmann, AZ
Wittmann wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Wittmann at the 79th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 432 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wittmann's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Where Wittmann's buildings actually sit
54.6% of Wittmann's 432 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 236 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 45.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Wittmann against the rest of the country
Inside Arizona, Wittmann sits at just the 42nd 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, Wittmann ranks 6,669 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,600 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 258 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wittmann
Wittmann's 79th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 54.6% of Wittmann 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 Wittmann's figures come from
Wittmann's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wittmann's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.