{
  "title": "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 85648 (Rio Rico), Arizona | Satelife",
  "description": "ZIP 85648 in Rio Rico, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: the points we sampled inside it score a median 58.4 out of 100 (High), against 38.5–83.1 across Santa Cruz County. Wildfire risk is measured per parcel, not per ZIP.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[Arizona](/wildfire-risk/arizona/)›[Santa Cruz County](/wildfire-risk/arizona/santa-cruz-county/)›ZIP 85648\n\nZIP 85648 · Rio Rico, Santa Cruz County, Arizona\n\n# Wildfire risk in _ZIP 85648_, Rio Rico\n\nThe points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of **58.4** out of 100 — **High**, below the Santa Cruz County middle of 67.2. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.\n\n[Score my 85648 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Santa Cruz County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/arizona/santa-cruz-county/)\n\nAt a glance\n\n## What we measured in _85648_\n\n58.4 median of the 28 sampled points inside this ZIP · High\n\n38.5–83.1 the range across Santa Cruz County, from 160 points\n\n45% of the way up the county's measured range\n\nRio Rico nearest mapped community to this ZIP's centre\n\nThe 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.\n\nZIP 85648 also reaches into Pima County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its Pima County side measured 58.1 from 1 points.\n\nWhat does your 85648 address score?\n\nThe 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.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nFire record\n\n## The fires _nearest to here_\n\nDistances are from the centre of ZIP 85648 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 [Santa Cruz County page](/wildfire-risk/arizona/santa-cruz-county/).\n\nMurphy Fire 2011 · 70,739 acres · Santa Cruz County 12_km away_\n\nBeehive Fire 2023 · 10,745 acres · Santa Cruz County 13_km away_\n\nTonto Canyon Fire 2022 · 13,562 acres · Santa Cruz County 20_km away_\n\nAlamo Fire 2021 · 9,430 acres · Santa Cruz County 21_km away_\n\nSoldier Basin Fire 2013 · 10,773 acres · Santa Cruz County 24_km away_\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## ZIP 85648 _in context_\n\n[Wildfire risk in Santa Cruz County The full county page: fire record, what drives the score, communities](/wildfire-risk/arizona/santa-cruz-county/) [Wildfire risk in Pima County This ZIP also reaches into Pima County](/wildfire-risk/arizona/pima-county/) [Arizona wildfire risk Every county we publish in the state](/wildfire-risk/arizona/) [How Satelife calculates wildfire risk Data sources, layers, score composition, honest limits](/wildfire-risk/methodology/) [Run a report for a 85648 address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nThis page is built from the Santa Cruz County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 28 fell inside ZIP 85648. 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.\n\n## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer?\n\nA ZIP median is the middle of a neighbourhood. 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."
}