Beale AFB, CA
Beale AFB, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Beale AFB lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 495 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Beale AFB's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
Beale AFB's building exposure, zone by zone
495 buildings are counted in Beale AFB, and 52.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 47.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Beale AFB against the rest of the country
Beale AFB's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 64th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beale AFB ranks 2,824 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,437 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 566 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beale AFB
Beale AFB sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 91st-percentile score like Beale AFB's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 52.1% of Beale AFB's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beale AFB's 2,824-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Beale AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.