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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Pinal County, Arizona 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Pinal County spans a wide range across the places we scored. The countywide middle score is 50.8, with scores running from 25.7 in Florence up to 82.2 in Superior.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[Arizona](/wildfire-risk/arizona/)›Pinal County\n\nPinal County, Arizona\n\n# Wildfire risk in Pinal County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Pinal County spans a wide range across the places we scored. The countywide middle score is 50.8, with scores running from 25.7 in Florence up to 82.2 in Superior.\n\n[Score my Pinal County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nPinal 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 Pinal County scores _High_ or worse\n\nWe scored 172 points across Pinal County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 5% of them come out Very High, while 45% are Moderate. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n51%\n\n45%\n\n**Very High** 5% · 8 of 172 points **High** 51% · 87 of 172 points **Moderate** 45% · 77 of 172 points\n\nSafest end we measured 25.7 near Florence · Moderate\n\nMiddle of the county 50.8 High — half of Pinal County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 82.2 near Superior · Very High\n\n### And the federal models agree it is a fire county\n\nRelatively High FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 98 / 100\n\n$12.2M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High\n\n0.33% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 0.71%\n\n4.31 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 94% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Pinal County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Relatively Moderate · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0023.\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 Pinal 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 _Pinal County_\n\nMost scored places fall in the High tier, with 87 points there. Moderate is close behind at 77 points, and 8 points are in Very High.\n\nFor county-wide context, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Pinal County’s wildfire risk as Relatively High. FEMA also rates the county’s wildfire expected annual loss as Relatively High.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nSince 1984, 113,647 acres have burned in Pinal County, and 3.3% of the county has burned over that period. The county has 122 fire perimeters recorded since 1984.\n\nThe largest fire named in the county fire stats is Sawtooth (2020). It burned 24,734 acres.\n\nThe most recent large fire named in the county fire stats is Cody (2025).\n\nAnother major named fire tied to the county is Telegraph (2021), at 180,757 acres.\n\n![Telegraph Fire (2021) in Pinal County, Arizona - Fire crews fighting the Telegraph Fire on June 9, 2021](/images/wildfire-risk/arizona/pinal-county/photos/telegraph-fire-arizona.webp)\n\n**Telegraph Fire, 2021** — Pinal County. Photo: Inciweb · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telegraph_Fire,_Arizona.jpg)\n\n![Woodbury Fire (2019) in Pinal County, Arizona - The BLM Gila District's Safford Hand Crew works on the Woodbury Fire, Tonto National Forest, Arizona. Credit: BLM/Kress Sanders](/images/wildfire-risk/arizona/pinal-county/photos/safford-hand-crew-49419622971.webp)\n\n**Woodbury Fire, 2019** — Pinal County. Photo: BLMArizona · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Safford_Hand_Crew_\\(49419622971\\).jpg)\n\n122 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n113,647 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n3.3% of the county's area, as a share of 13,854.5 km²\n\nCody 2025 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-   **Telegraph Fire**2021180,757 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Woodbury Fire**2019123,973 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Sawtooth Fire**202024,734 acres\n-   **Rockhouse Fire**202019,506 acres\n-   **Bighorn Fire**2020119,541 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Superstition Fire**20209,593 acres\n-   **Romero Fire**20247,392 acres\n-   **Wood Fire**20247,211 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Sawtooth 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\nAmong larger communities, Casa Grande is at 51.5, while Maricopa is 39.3 and San Tan Valley is 35.2.\n\nIn another cluster, Apache Junction is 43.9, Florence is 42.9, and Coolidge is 44.5.\n\nSome foothill and mountain-adjacent communities are higher, including Gold Canyon at 54.0, Saddlebrooke at 50.4, and Oracle at 51.3.\n\nSuperior village · 3,039 people\n\n80.1 _Very High_\n\nQueen Valley village · 967 people\n\n71.3 _High_\n\nKearny village · 2,896 people\n\n63.4 _High_\n\nDudleyville village · 1,068 people\n\n54.8 _High_\n\nGold Canyon town · 11,404 people\n\n54 _High_\n\nCasa Grande city · 70,156 people\n\n51.5 _High_\n\nOracle village · 3,051 people\n\n51.3 _High_\n\nSaddlebrooke village · 12,574 people\n\n50.4 _High_\n\nBlackwater / Chukma Shuhthagi village\n\n48.8 _Moderate_\n\nMammoth village · 2,266 people\n\n48.4 _Moderate_\n\n12 more communities in Pinal County\n\nRed Rock village · 2,625 people\n\n48 _Moderate_\n\nSacaton / Geʼe Ki: village\n\n46.6 _Moderate_\n\nCoolidge village · 13,218 people\n\n44.5 _Moderate_\n\nApache Junction town · 42,766 people\n\n43.9 _Moderate_\n\nFlorence town · 26,785 people\n\n42.9 _Moderate_\n\nNorth Komelik village\n\n40 _Moderate_\n\nMaricopa town · 79,134 people\n\n39.3 _Moderate_\n\nEloy town · 19,391 people\n\n38.3 _Moderate_\n\nArizona City village · 9,868 people\n\n38.1 _Moderate_\n\nStotonic village\n\n38 _Moderate_\n\nSan Tan Valley town · 106,179 people\n\n35.2 _Moderate_\n\nAk-Chin Village / ʼAkĭ Ciñ village\n\n29 _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 this county.\n\nFor terrain, scores run from 40.0 near North Komelik to 65.0 at Red Rock, with a county middle value of 65.0.\n\nFor vegetation and fuels, scores run from 20.0 near Kearny to 80.0 near North Komelik, with a middle value of 79.8. In this county, fuels are one of the stronger contributors to higher wildfire risk scores in many places.\n\n65 median terrain score (max 65 near Red Rock)\n\n79.8 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near North Komelik)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Pinal County_\n\nFire weather was not measured at the sampled points in Pinal 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\nScores are not uniform across Pinal County. In the community list, Superior is high at 80.1, while Queen Valley is also elevated at 71.3, and Ak-Chin Village / ʼAkĭ Ciñ is lower at 29.0.\n\nSeveral larger communities sit in the lower-to-middle part of the county range, including San Tan Valley at 35.2, Arizona City at 38.1, and Maricopa at 39.3.\n\nAt the point level, the lowest score appears in Florence at 25.7, while the highest appears in Superior at 82.2.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Pinal 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\n40–65 highest near Red Rock\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20–80 highest near North Komelik\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–84 highest near Superior\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Dudleyville\n\nOverall score\n\n25.7–82.2 highest near Superior\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\n40\n\n65\n\n65\n\nnear North Komelik\n\nRed Rock\n\n172\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20\n\n79.8\n\n80\n\nnear Kearny\n\nnear North Komelik\n\n172\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n45.2\n\n84\n\nSaddlebrooke\n\nSuperior\n\n172\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n5\n\n95\n\nnear North Komelik\n\nnear Dudleyville\n\n172\n\nComposite\n\n25.7\n\n50.8\n\n82.2\n\nFlorence\n\nSuperior\n\n172\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.33%** (90th percentile cell: **0.71%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **4.31 ft**. **94%** of the 31,705 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 **172** of the 172 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas, and most of this county is state or federal land. At **168** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead; at the remaining 4 the hazard weight is renormalised away rather than scored as low.\n\n172 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\nHazard-zone scores vary sharply by location. They run from 10.0 in Saddlebrooke to 84.0 in Superior, with a county middle value of 45.2.\n\nFire-history scores are low in some places and very high in others, from 5.0 near North Komelik to 95.0 near Dudleyville. That spread is associated with very different local wildfire histories inside the county.\n\nThe USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities model shows a mean annual burn probability of 0.33%, with 0.71% at the 90th-percentile cell. It also indicates that 94.3% of the county area can burn.\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates Pinal County’s all-hazards risk as Relatively Moderate, social vulnerability as Relatively Moderate, and community resilience as Very Low.\n\nAcross 172 sampled points in Pinal County, the score runs from 25.7 to 82.2 — 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 Pinal 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 Pinal County\n\nEvery one of the 48 ZIP areas that touch Pinal 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-   [85173 Superior76](/wildfire-risk/zip/85173/)\n\n**High** 12 ZIPs\n\n-   [85118 Gold Canyon71](/wildfire-risk/zip/85118/)\n-   [85192 Dudleyville65](/wildfire-risk/zip/85192/)\n-   [85137 Kearny61](/wildfire-risk/zip/85137/)\n-   [85653 Red Rock58](/wildfire-risk/zip/85653/)\n-   [85339 Maricopa56](/wildfire-risk/zip/85339/)\n-   [85141 Red Rock54](/wildfire-risk/zip/85141/)\n-   [85631 Mammoth53](/wildfire-risk/zip/85631/)\n-   [85140 San Tan Valley52](/wildfire-risk/zip/85140/)\n-   [85132 Florence52](/wildfire-risk/zip/85132/)\n-   [85618 Mammoth52](/wildfire-risk/zip/85618/)\n-   [85623 Oracle51](/wildfire-risk/zip/85623/)\n-   [85119 Apache Junction50](/wildfire-risk/zip/85119/)\n\n**Moderate** 17 ZIPs\n\n-   [85128 Coolidge50](/wildfire-risk/zip/85128/)\n-   [85739 Saddlebrooke50](/wildfire-risk/zip/85739/)\n-   [85139 Ak-Chin Village / ʼAkĭ Ciñ49](/wildfire-risk/zip/85139/)\n-   [85193 Casa Grande49](/wildfire-risk/zip/85193/)\n-   [85658 Red Rock47](/wildfire-risk/zip/85658/)\n-   [85131 Eloy46](/wildfire-risk/zip/85131/)\n-   [85147 Sacaton / Geʼe Ki:46](/wildfire-risk/zip/85147/)\n-   [85121 Stotonic43](/wildfire-risk/zip/85121/)\n-   [85172 Ak-Chin Village / ʼAkĭ Ciñ41](/wildfire-risk/zip/85172/)\n-   [85145 Red Rock40](/wildfire-risk/zip/85145/)\n-   [85634 40](/wildfire-risk/zip/85634/)\n-   [85120 Apache Junction38](/wildfire-risk/zip/85120/)\n-   [85142 San Tan Valley36](/wildfire-risk/zip/85142/)\n-   [85122 Casa Grande30](/wildfire-risk/zip/85122/)\n-   [85143 San Tan Valley29](/wildfire-risk/zip/85143/)\n-   [85138 Maricopa29](/wildfire-risk/zip/85138/)\n-   [85123 Arizona City28](/wildfire-risk/zip/85123/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 18 ZIPs\n\n[85135 Dudleyville](/wildfire-risk/zip/85135/) · [85191 Coolidge](/wildfire-risk/zip/85191/) · [85194 Casa Grande](/wildfire-risk/zip/85194/) · [85207 Apache Junction](/wildfire-risk/zip/85207/) · [85208 Apache Junction](/wildfire-risk/zip/85208/) · [85209 Apache Junction](/wildfire-risk/zip/85209/) · [85212 Apache Junction](/wildfire-risk/zip/85212/) · [85215 Apache Junction](/wildfire-risk/zip/85215/) · [85226 Stotonic](/wildfire-risk/zip/85226/) · [85248 Stotonic](/wildfire-risk/zip/85248/) · [85321](/wildfire-risk/zip/85321/) · [85530](/wildfire-risk/zip/85530/) · [85539 Superior](/wildfire-risk/zip/85539/) · [85542](/wildfire-risk/zip/85542/) · [85545 Superior](/wildfire-risk/zip/85545/) · [85602](/wildfire-risk/zip/85602/) · [85619 Saddlebrooke](/wildfire-risk/zip/85619/) · [85643](/wildfire-risk/zip/85643/)\n\nGrouped from 30 of 48 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## Pinal 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 Pinal County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Pinal County wildfire risk_\n\nWhat does a score mean here?\n\nScores are on a 0–100 scale, where higher numbers mean more wildfire exposure at that location.\n\nWhich places are highest in this county?\n\nIn the places listed, Superior has one of the highest community-level scores at 80.1, and Queen Valley is also high at 71.3. The highest point-level score shown is 82.2 in Superior.\n\nWhat is the largest fire I should know about here?\n\nThe county fire stats identify Sawtooth (2020) as the largest, at 24,734 acres.\n\nWhat is the most recent large fire in the county record?\n\nThe county fire stats list Cody (2025) as the most recent large fire.\n\nDo you include fire weather in this county page?\n\nNo. Fire weather was not measured at all for this county page.\n\nThis page is generated from a Pinal 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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