Kingman, AZ
Kingman, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kingman sits at the 82nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 14,201 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kingman's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
Kingman's building exposure, zone by zone
14,201 buildings are counted in Kingman, and 49.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 34.7% in Direct exposure or the 16% rated Minimal. At 14,201 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Kingman ranks
Kingman ranks lower within Arizona (47th percentile statewide) than its 82nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingman ranks 5,758 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,054 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 232 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Kingman's 82nd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 49.4% of Kingman'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
Kingman's 82nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kingman, see the exposure-zones guide.