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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Greenlee County, Arizona 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Greenlee County spans a wide range from place to place. Among the places we scored, the lowest score was 37.4 in Duncan, and the highest was 82.9 in unincorporated Greenlee County. The middle score was 63.5.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[Arizona](/wildfire-risk/arizona/)›Greenlee County\n\nGreenlee County, Arizona\n\n# Wildfire risk in Greenlee County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Greenlee County spans a wide range from place to place. Among the places we scored, the lowest score was 37.4 in Duncan, and the highest was 82.9 in unincorporated Greenlee County. The middle score was 63.5.\n\n[Score my Greenlee County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nGreenlee County — the largest fires on record, at their perimeter centres, with the county’s main communities. Select a marker for its detail.\n\nAt a glance\n\n## Half of Greenlee County scores _High_ or worse\n\nWe scored 153 points across Greenlee County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 31% of them come out Very High, while 19% are Moderate. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n31%\n\n50%\n\n19%\n\n**Very High** 31% · 47 of 153 points **High** 50% · 77 of 153 points **Moderate** 19% · 29 of 153 points\n\nSafest end we measured 37.4 near Duncan · Moderate\n\nMiddle of the county 63.5 High — half of Greenlee County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 82.9 near unincorporated Greenlee County · Very High\n\n### And the federal models agree it is a fire county\n\nRelatively Low FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 82.5 / 100\n\n$531k / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively Low\n\n0.92% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 2.63%\n\n8.33 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 100% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Greenlee County: all-hazards risk Very Low · social vulnerability Relatively Low · community resilience Relatively Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0033.\n\nSources: FEMA National Risk Index 1.20.0 (Dec 2025), county record · USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0, mean of the grid cells inside the county. Both describe the county as a whole, never an address in it.\n\nWhat does your Greenlee County address score?\n\nA county range shows the spread. Your parcel sits somewhere inside it — the report says where, and what to do about it.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nLocal context\n\n## What the data says about _Greenlee County_\n\nMost scored places fell into the High tier, with 77 points in High and 47 in Very High. No scored points fell into Low.\n\nFor county-wide context, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Greenlee County’s wildfire risk as “Relatively Low.” FEMA also rates the county’s all-hazards risk as “Very Low.”\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nSince 1984, 231,752 acres have burned within the county, and that equals 19.7% of Greenlee County. The county has had 225 fire perimeters in that period.\n\nThe largest fire named for this county in these records is Cow Canyon (2020), at 30,483 acres. The most recent large fire is Foote (2024).\n\nThe Wallow Fire (2011) burned 538,052 acres overall and was partly in Greenlee County.\n\nThe Rattlesnake Fire (2018) burned 26,068 acres and was also partly in Greenlee County.\n\n![Wallow Fire (2011) in Greenlee County, Arizona - This image shows areas that were completely burned, side-by-side with areas that were moderately or lightly burned or not touched ](/images/wildfire-risk/arizona/greenlee-county/photos/wallow-fire-burn-scar-arizona.webp)\n\n**Wallow Fire, 2011** — Greenlee County. Photo: Jesse Allen · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallow_Fire_Burn_Scar,_Arizona.jpg)\n\n![Bringham Fire (2020) in Greenlee County, Arizona - The Payette National Forest Price Valley Rappellers Crew on the Bringham Fire and the Pinal Fire in Arizona, July 2020. This photo](/images/wildfire-risk/arizona/greenlee-county/photos/2020723-fs-payette-db-002-50145821682.webp)\n\n**Bringham Fire, 2020** — Greenlee County. Photo: Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2020723-FS-Payette-DB-002_\\(50145821682\\).jpg)\n\n225 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n231,752 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n19.7% of the county's area, as a share of 4,758.9 km²\n\nFoote 2024 most recent large fire on record\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020s \n\nFire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.\n\nNamed fires on record\n\n-   **Wallow Fire**2011538,052 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Cow Canyon Fire**202030,483 acres\n-   **Bringham Fire**202022,320 acres\n-   **Rattlesnake Fire**201826,068 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Horton Fire**202112,263 acres\n-   **Chitty Fire**200715,049 acres\n-   **Kp Fire**200416,092 acres\n-   **Hot Air Fire**20089,708 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Cow Canyon 2020. Perimeters are simplified for display; acreage is the figure the source records.\n\nCommunities\n\n## Where in the county you are _matters most_\n\nMorenci and Clifton are very similar in the scores shown here, at 54.8 and 54.7.\n\nDuncan is lower at 45.0, compared with the county’s middle score of 63.5.\n\nPopulation figures listed here are 2,321 for Clifton and 732 for Duncan.\n\nMorenci town\n\n54.8 _High_\n\nClifton village · 2,321 people\n\n54.7 _High_\n\nDuncan village · 732 people\n\n45 _Moderate_\n\nThe score is the median of the sampled points nearest that community — a community-scale indicator, not a score for any individual property in it. Population comes from the community's own record where the source carries one.\n\nTerrain & fuels\n\n## Terrain, vegetation and _fuels_\n\nFire weather was not measured at all for Greenlee County on this page.\n\nTerrain scores are in a tighter band than some other factors, from 55.0 near Duncan to 65.0 in Duncan.\n\nVegetation and fuels vary more: Morenci is at 20.0, while near Duncan reaches 80.0. The middle value is 72.6, which is associated with higher wildfire risk in many parts of the county.\n\n55 median terrain score (max 65 near Duncan)\n\n72.6 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Duncan)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Greenlee County_\n\nFire weather was not measured at the sampled points in Greenlee County. The other four indicators on this page were, and the bars below show what they found.\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nRisk is not uniform across Greenlee County. The highest scored location, 82.9, is in unincorporated Greenlee County, while Duncan is at the low end at 37.4.\n\nHazard-zone scores also vary sharply by location: the highest scored place is unincorporated Greenlee County at 94.3, while Clifton is at 10.0. The middle value is 75.7.\n\nFire-history scores range from 5.0 near Duncan to 95.0 near Clifton, with a middle value of 50.0. That spread shows how different local burn footprints are within the county.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Greenlee County, on the same 0–100 scale. A long bar is a part of the risk that depends on where you are; a short one is the same almost everywhere.\n\nTerrain\n\n55–65 highest near Duncan\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20–80 highest near Duncan\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–94.3 highest near unincorporated Greenlee County\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Clifton\n\nOverall score\n\n37.4–82.9 highest near unincorporated Greenlee County\n\nThe tick on each bar is the middle value. Tier boundaries — Moderate at 25, High at 50, Very High at 75 — are the faint lines behind them.\n\nShow every number behind these bars\n\nLayer\n\nMin\n\nMedian\n\nMax\n\nLowest place\n\nHighest place\n\nPoints\n\nTerrain\n\n55\n\n55\n\n65\n\nnear Duncan\n\nDuncan\n\n152\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20\n\n72.6\n\n80\n\nMorenci\n\nnear Duncan\n\n153\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n75.7\n\n94.3\n\nClifton\n\nunincorporated Greenlee County\n\n153\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n50\n\n95\n\nnear Duncan\n\nnear Clifton\n\n153\n\nComposite\n\n37.4\n\n63.5\n\n82.9\n\nDuncan\n\nunincorporated Greenlee County\n\n153\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.92%** (90th percentile cell: **2.63%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **8.33 ft**. **100%** of the 30,529 grid cells inside the county carry burnable fuel at all.\n\nSource: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).\n\nCAL FIRE has no mapped Fire Hazard Severity Zone at **153** of the 153 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas, and most of this county is state or federal land. At **152** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead; at the remaining 1 the hazard weight is renormalised away rather than scored as low.\n\n153 sample points on a ~2.3 km grid, plus one at the centre of each community, weighted with the Satelife county profile v1 · median layer coverage 90%. Scores are 0–100 and comparable within the county, not across states.\n\nFor a property\n\n## What a county range means for _one address_\n\nA separate national model from the U.S. Forest Service estimates mean annual burn probability at 0.92% for the county, with a 90th-percentile cell value of 2.63%.\n\nThat same model indicates that 99.8% of the county can burn, and it gives a mean conditional flame length of 8.33 feet.\n\nFor a specific home, local score differences still matter a lot, even within the same town or ZIP area. County-wide ratings and model outputs are useful context, but they are not a street-by-street guarantee.\n\nAcross 153 sampled points in Greenlee County, the score runs from 37.4 to 82.9 — two neighbouring parcels can sit in different tiers. A county number is the middle of that spread; it says nothing about which end yours is at.\n\nFind out where your Greenlee County parcel sits\n\nSlope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nCoverage\n\n## ZIP codes we cover in Greenlee County\n\nEvery one of the 11 ZIP areas that touch Greenlee County — we run address-level reports in all of them. They are grouped by the median score of the points we sampled inside each, which is a neighbourhood-scale indicator and **not** a score for any property: two homes in the same ZIP routinely land in different tiers.\n\n**Very High** 1 ZIP\n\n-   [85922 77](/wildfire-risk/zip/85922/)\n\n**High** 2 ZIPs\n\n-   [85533 Morenci64](/wildfire-risk/zip/85533/)\n-   [85540 Morenci52](/wildfire-risk/zip/85540/)\n\n**Moderate** 1 ZIP\n\n-   [85534 Duncan47](/wildfire-risk/zip/85534/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 7 ZIPs\n\n[85546](/wildfire-risk/zip/85546/) · [85632](/wildfire-risk/zip/85632/) · [85920](/wildfire-risk/zip/85920/) · [87830](/wildfire-risk/zip/87830/) · [88039](/wildfire-risk/zip/88039/) · [88045](/wildfire-risk/zip/88045/) · [88051 Clifton](/wildfire-risk/zip/88051/)\n\nGrouped from 4 of 11 ZIP areas — the rest had no sample point fall inside them. The community shown is the nearest mapped place to the ZIP's centre.\n\nZIP areas are Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas intersecting the county boundary.\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## Greenlee County wildfire risk _in context_\n\n[Arizona wildfire risk The statewide picture and every county page we publish](/wildfire-risk/arizona/) [Wildfire risk by state Every state and county we cover](/wildfire-risk/) [How Satelife calculates wildfire risk Data sources, layers, score composition, honest limits](/wildfire-risk/methodology/) [Create a wildfire evacuation plan Zones, egress routes, refuge areas](/wildfire-evacuation-plan/) [Run a report for a Greenlee County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Greenlee County wildfire risk_\n\nHas a lot of Greenlee County burned in recent decades?\n\nYes. Since 1984, 19.7% of the county has burned, totaling 231,752 acres.\n\nWhat are the largest and most recent large fires I should know by name?\n\nThe largest fire named for this county in these records is Cow Canyon (2020), at 30,483 acres. The most recent large fire is Foote (2024).\n\nDoes this page include fire weather for Greenlee County?\n\nNo. Fire weather was not measured at all for Greenlee County on this page.\n\nHow should I read the FEMA rating versus local wildfire scores?\n\nThey describe different things. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Greenlee County’s wildfire risk as “Relatively Low” at the county level, while local wildfire scores show how risk varies from place to place within the county.\n\nWhich towns shown here have higher or lower scores?\n\nMorenci (54.8) and Clifton (54.7) are similar in the values shown here, while Duncan is lower at 45.0.\n\nThis page is generated from a Greenlee County data pack assembled on 2026-09-05 (pack v1.0). Scores are sampled across the county, not measured at any individual address, and are informational decision support — not a substitute for official evacuation orders, a fire-agency hazard determination, or an insurer's underwriting judgement. Data versions: fema\\_nri 1.20.0 (Dec 2025) · landfire per adapter · nifc\\_history All Years View · wfigs current · wrc v2.0 (2024) · zcta Census 2020.\n\n## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer?\n\nA county range shows the spread. An address-level Satelife report shows where in that spread your property actually sits — PDF, per-layer score, and a prioritized mitigation plan.\n\n[Start with your address →](/#cta)\n\n[![PRR](/images/prr.png)](/ficha-de-website-voucher-satelife.pdf)\n\n© 2024–2026 Satelife, Lda. All rights reserved.\n\nSatelife reports are for informational purposes only and do not constitute insurance, financial, or legal advice."
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