El Centro Naval Air Facility, CA
El Centro Naval Air Facility, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
El Centro Naval Air Facility sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 323 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, El Centro Naval Air Facility's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
El Centro Naval Air Facility rates 46.1% Minimal exposure against just 8.4% Direct and 45.5% Indirect — of 323 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
El Centro Naval Air Facility against the rest of the country
El Centro Naval Air Facility ranks lower within California (19th percentile statewide) than its 61st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, El Centro Naval Air Facility ranks 12,375 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,000 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,271 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
El Centro Naval Air Facility's 61st-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.
Hardening a home in El Centro Naval Air Facility
El Centro Naval Air Facility's 46.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
El Centro Naval Air Facility's 61st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond El Centro Naval Air Facility, see the exposure-zones guide.