Wildfire risk in Pinal County: where it is highest, and why
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.
Pinal County — the largest fires on record, at their perimeter centres, with the county’s main communities. Select a marker for its detail.
At a glance
Half of Pinal County scores High or worse
We 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.
51%
45%
Very High5% · 8 of 172 pointsHigh51% · 87 of 172 pointsModerate45% · 77 of 172 points
Safest end we measured25.7near Florence · Moderate
Middle of the county50.8High — half of Pinal County is above this
Most exposed end we measured82.2near Superior · Very High
And the federal models agree it is a fire county
Relatively HighFEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 98 / 100
$12.2M / yrFEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High
0.33%USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 0.71%
4.31 ftUSFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 94% of the county carries burnable fuel
FEMA NRI also rates Pinal County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Relatively Moderate · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0023.
Sources: 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.
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Local context
What the data says about Pinal County
Most 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.
For 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.
Fire record
Where the fires actually were
Since 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.
The largest fire named in the county fire stats is Sawtooth (2020). It burned 24,734 acres.
The most recent large fire named in the county fire stats is Cody (2025).
Another major named fire tied to the county is Telegraph (2021), at 180,757 acres.
122mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984
113,647acres inside those perimeters since 1984
3.3%of the county's area, as a share of 13,854.5 km²
Cody 2025most recent large fire on record
Before 20002000s2010s2020s
Fire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.
Named fires on record
Telegraph Fire2021180,757 acres in totalcrossed into the county
Woodbury Fire2019123,973 acres in totalcrossed into the county
Sawtooth Fire202024,734 acres
Rockhouse Fire202019,506 acres
Bighorn Fire2020119,541 acres in totalcrossed into the county
Superstition Fire20209,593 acres
Romero Fire20247,392 acres
Wood Fire20247,211 acres
Perimeter 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.
Communities
Where in the county you are matters most
Among larger communities, Casa Grande is at 51.5, while Maricopa is 39.3 and San Tan Valley is 35.2.
In another cluster, Apache Junction is 43.9, Florence is 42.9, and Coolidge is 44.5.
Some foothill and mountain-adjacent communities are higher, including Gold Canyon at 54.0, Saddlebrooke at 50.4, and Oracle at 51.3.
Superiorvillage · 3,039 people
80.1 Very High
Queen Valleyvillage · 967 people
71.3 High
Kearnyvillage · 2,896 people
63.4 High
Dudleyvillevillage · 1,068 people
54.8 High
Gold Canyontown · 11,404 people
54 High
Casa Grandecity · 70,156 people
51.5 High
Oraclevillage · 3,051 people
51.3 High
Saddlebrookevillage · 12,574 people
50.4 High
Blackwater / Chukma Shuhthagivillage
48.8 Moderate
Mammothvillage · 2,266 people
48.4 Moderate
12 more communities in Pinal County
Red Rockvillage · 2,625 people
48 Moderate
Sacaton / Geʼe Ki:village
46.6 Moderate
Coolidgevillage · 13,218 people
44.5 Moderate
Apache Junctiontown · 42,766 people
43.9 Moderate
Florencetown · 26,785 people
42.9 Moderate
North Komelikvillage
40 Moderate
Maricopatown · 79,134 people
39.3 Moderate
Eloytown · 19,391 people
38.3 Moderate
Arizona Cityvillage · 9,868 people
38.1 Moderate
Stotonicvillage
38 Moderate
San Tan Valleytown · 106,179 people
35.2 Moderate
Ak-Chin Village / ʼAkĭ Ciñvillage
29 Moderate
The 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.
Terrain & fuels
Terrain, vegetation and fuels
Fire weather was not measured at all for this county.
For terrain, scores run from 40.0 near North Komelik to 65.0 at Red Rock, with a county middle value of 65.0.
For 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.
65median terrain score (max 65 near Red Rock)
79.8median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near North Komelik)
Fire weather
Fire weather across Pinal County
Fire 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.
What drives it
Which part of the risk moves, and which doesn't
Scores 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.
Several 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.
At the point level, the lowest score appears in Florence at 25.7, while the highest appears in Superior at 82.2.
Each 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.
Terrain
40–65highest near Red Rock
Vegetation & fuels
20–80highest near North Komelik
Hazard zone
10–84highest near Superior
Fire history
5–95highest near Dudleyville
Overall score
25.7–82.2highest near Superior
The 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.
Show every number behind these bars
Layer
Min
Median
Max
Lowest place
Highest place
Points
Terrain
40
65
65
near North Komelik
Red Rock
172
Vegetation & fuels
20
79.8
80
near Kearny
near North Komelik
172
Hazard zone
10
45.2
84
Saddlebrooke
Superior
172
Fire history
5
5
95
near North Komelik
near Dudleyville
172
Composite
25.7
50.8
82.2
Florence
Superior
172
Independently 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.
Source: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).
CAL 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.
172 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.
For a property
What a county range means for one address
Hazard-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.
Fire-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.
The 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.
FEMA’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.
Across 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.
Find out where your Pinal County parcel sits
Slope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.
Free to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan
Coverage
ZIP codes we cover in Pinal County
Every 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.
Frequently asked questions about Pinal County wildfire risk
What does a score mean here?
Scores are on a 0–100 scale, where higher numbers mean more wildfire exposure at that location.
Which places are highest in this county?
In 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.
What is the largest fire I should know about here?
The county fire stats identify Sawtooth (2020) as the largest, at 24,734 acres.
What is the most recent large fire in the county record?
The county fire stats list Cody (2025) as the most recent large fire.
Do you include fire weather in this county page?
No. Fire weather was not measured at all for this county page.
This 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.
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