Much of Coconino County lies in a mapped wildland-urban interface. New construction in WUI areas must meet ignition-resistant building and defensible-space standards, and recent fires — Schultz, Museum, Pipeline, Tunnel — brought catastrophic post-fire flooding downhill.
Coconino County is one of Arizona's highest-risk wildfire counties, and large parts of the forested communities around Flagstaff, Sedona, Munds Park, and Kachina Village sit in the mapped wildland-urban interface. The county's WUI code and zoning fire-protection standards require Firewise defensible space and, for new or substantially rebuilt homes in WUI areas, ignition-resistant roofing, siding, decking, and ember-resistant vents. The Sedona Fire District enforces its own adopted WUI code with stricter ignition-resistant construction. A defining local hazard is post-fire flooding: burn scars from the Schultz (2010), Museum (2019), and Pipeline and Tunnel (2022) fires sent damaging debris flows onto downhill neighborhoods.
Non-compliant WUI construction can be denied permits or required to be upgraded, and inadequate defensible space raises the risk of losing a home, or its insurance, in a county where major wildfires recur.
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