Mojave Ranch Estates, AZ
Mojave Ranch Estates wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mojave Ranch Estates at the 53rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 17 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mojave Ranch Estates at the 52nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mojave Ranch Estates's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Mojave Ranch Estates: 82.4% of its 17 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 17.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. This is a small settlement by building count — 17 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Mojave Ranch Estates against the rest of the country
Inside Arizona, Mojave Ranch Estates sits at just the 21st percentile even though it scores 53rd 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, Mojave Ranch Estates ranks 14,832 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,473 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 348 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mojave Ranch Estates
Mojave Ranch Estates's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Mojave Ranch Estates (82.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Mojave Ranch Estates's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mojave Ranch Estates's 14,832-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. Small places like Mojave Ranch Estates (17 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.