ZIP 85256 · Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona

Wildfire risk in ZIP 85256, Scottsdale

The points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of 31.7 out of 100 — Moderate, below the Maricopa County middle of 43.2. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.

At a glance

What we measured in 85256

31.7 median of the 1 sampled point inside this ZIP · Moderate
20–81.8 the range across Maricopa County, from 191 points
19% of the way up the county's measured range
Scottsdale nearest mapped community to this ZIP's centre

The four tiers on this page are the ones a Satelife address report prints — Low below 25, Moderate to 50, High to 75, Very High above it. A ZIP is a postal area, so the number above is the middle of what we measured inside it. Either way, two houses in this ZIP can sit in different tiers, and the only way to know which is to score the parcel.

What does your 85256 address score?

The ZIP number above is a neighbourhood median. Slope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out and the fire history within a mile are measured at the address itself.

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Fire record

The fires nearest to here

Distances are from the centre of ZIP 85256 to the centre of each fire's mapped perimeter, so a large fire's edge may have come far closer than the number suggests. The full record for the county — every named fire, the acreage and the share of the county burned — is on the Maricopa County page.

Siphon Fire 2024 · 15,527 acres · Maricopa County 39km away
Wildcat Fire 2024 · 14,402 acres · Maricopa County 40km away
Sand Stone Fire 2024 · 27,390 acres · Maricopa County 41km away
Sears Fire 2020 · 14,477 acres · Maricopa County 47km away
Bush Fire 2020 · 193,604 acres · Maricopa County 52km away
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ZIP 85256 in context

This page is built from the Maricopa County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 1 fell inside ZIP 85256. Scores are informational decision support — not a substitute for official evacuation orders, a fire-agency hazard determination, or an insurer's underwriting judgement, and never a measurement of any individual property.

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