Wheeler AFB, HI
How exposed is Wheeler AFB to wildfire?
USFS scores Wheeler AFB at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 776 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wheeler AFB at the 76th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wheeler AFB's building exposure, zone by zone
81.1% of Wheeler AFB's 776 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 18.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Wheeler AFB compares
Inside Hawaii, Wheeler AFB sits at just the 9th percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Wheeler AFB ranks 6,364 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,852 by building count (1 is largest). Within Hawaii alone, it ranks 149 of 163 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Hawaii on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wheeler AFB
Wheeler AFB's 80th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Wheeler AFB (81.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wheeler AFB's 6,364-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wheeler AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.