Mohave Valley, AZ
Mohave Valley, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mohave Valley at the 65th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,946 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mohave Valley at the 64th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
65.7% of Mohave Valley's 1,946 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 22.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Mohave Valley compares
Inside Arizona, Mohave Valley sits at just the 29th percentile even though it scores 65th 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, Mohave Valley ranks 10,924 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,625 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 313 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mohave Valley
Mohave Valley's 65th-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Mohave Valley
Even with 65.7% of Mohave Valley outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Mohave Valley's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,946 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mohave Valley. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mohave Valley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.