Yucca, AZ
Yucca, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Yucca at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 210 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Yucca at the 53rd national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Yucca's buildings actually sit
71% of Yucca's 210 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 29.1% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Yucca ranks
Inside Arizona, Yucca sits at just the 25th percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Yucca ranks 13,228 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,466 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 332 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
Yucca's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Yucca
Yucca's 71% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Yucca's 13,228-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Yucca, see the exposure-zones guide.