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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 86503 (Chinle), Arizona | Satelife",
  "description": "ZIP 86503 in Chinle, Apache County, Arizona: the points we sampled inside it score a median 42.5 out of 100 (Moderate), against 23.7–80.8 across Apache County. Wildfire risk is measured per parcel, not per ZIP.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[Arizona](/wildfire-risk/arizona/)›[Apache County](/wildfire-risk/arizona/apache-county/)›ZIP 86503\n\nZIP 86503 · Chinle, Apache County, Arizona\n\n# Wildfire risk in _ZIP 86503_, Chinle\n\nThe points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of **42.5** out of 100 — **Moderate**, below the Apache County middle of 47.1. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.\n\n[Score my 86503 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Apache County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/arizona/apache-county/)\n\nAt a glance\n\n## What we measured in _86503_\n\n42.5 median of the 22 sampled points inside this ZIP · Moderate\n\n23.7–80.8 the range across Apache County, from 190 points\n\n33% of the way up the county's measured range\n\nChinle 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 86503 also reaches into Navajo County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its Navajo County side measured 39.2 from 1 points.\n\nWhat does your 86503 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 86503 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 [Apache County page](/wildfire-risk/arizona/apache-county/).\n\nWood Springs 2 Fire 2020 · 12,862 acres · Apache County 48_km away_\n\nOak Ridge Fire 2025 · 11,027 acres · Apache County 81_km away_\n\n377 Fire 2018 · 5,152 acres · Navajo County 202_km away_\n\nPotato Fire 2006 · 6,165 acres · Navajo County 206_km away_\n\nWyrick Fire 2021 · 7,593 acres · Navajo County 208_km away_\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## ZIP 86503 _in context_\n\n[Wildfire risk in Apache County The full county page: fire record, what drives the score, communities](/wildfire-risk/arizona/apache-county/) [Wildfire risk in Navajo County This ZIP also reaches into Navajo County](/wildfire-risk/arizona/navajo-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 86503 address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nThis page is built from the Apache County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 22 fell inside ZIP 86503. 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."
}