Yuma Proving Ground, AZ
How exposed is Yuma Proving Ground to wildfire?
USFS scores Yuma Proving Ground at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 313 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Yuma Proving Ground at the 76th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Yuma Proving Ground's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 74.8% of Yuma Proving Ground's 313 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 25.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Yuma Proving Ground compares
Inside Arizona, Yuma Proving Ground sits at just the 36th percentile even though it scores 75th 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, Yuma Proving Ground ranks 7,900 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,275 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 281 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Yuma Proving Ground
Yuma Proving Ground's 75th-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 Yuma Proving Ground
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Yuma Proving Ground (74.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Yuma Proving Ground's figures come from
Yuma Proving Ground's 75th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Yuma Proving Ground's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.