ZIP 86520 · Cottonwood, Apache County, Arizona

Wildfire risk in ZIP 86520, Cottonwood

The points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of 40 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.

At a glance

What we measured in 86520

40 median of the 1 sampled point inside this ZIP · Moderate
23.7–80.8 the range across Apache County, from 190 points
29% of the way up the county's measured range
Cottonwood 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.

ZIP 86520 also reaches into Navajo County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its Navajo County side measured 51.7 from 2 points.

What does your 86520 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 86520 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.

Wood Springs 2 Fire 2020 · 12,862 acres · Apache County 61km away
Oak Ridge Fire 2025 · 11,027 acres · Apache County 87km away
377 Fire 2018 · 5,152 acres · Navajo County 180km away
Potato Fire 2006 · 6,165 acres · Navajo County 181km away
Wyrick Fire 2021 · 7,593 acres · Navajo County 185km away
Where to go next

ZIP 86520 in context

This page is built from the Apache County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 1 fell inside ZIP 86520. 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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