Edwards AFB, CA
How exposed is Edwards AFB to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Edwards AFB at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 852 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Edwards AFB at the 41st national percentile — 8 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Edwards AFB's buildings actually sit
Most of Edwards AFB's buildings (56.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Edwards AFB ranks
Inside California, Edwards AFB sits at just the 3rd percentile even though it scores 33rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edwards AFB ranks 21,105 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,146 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,516 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Edwards AFB's 33rd-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 56.6% of Edwards 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.
Where Edwards AFB's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Edwards AFB's 21,105-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Edwards AFB's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.