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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Mohave County, Arizona 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Mohave County spans a wide range from place to place. Among the places we scored, the overall score runs from 14.5 in Meadview to 83.1 near Beaver Dam, with a county midpoint of 48.4.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[Arizona](/wildfire-risk/arizona/)›Mohave County\n\nMohave County, Arizona\n\n# Wildfire risk in Mohave County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Mohave County spans a wide range from place to place. Among the places we scored, the overall score runs from 14.5 in Meadview to 83.1 near Beaver Dam, with a county midpoint of 48.4.\n\n[Score my Mohave County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nMohave County — the largest fires on record, at their perimeter centres, with the county’s main communities. Select a marker for its detail.\n\nAt a glance\n\n## Half of Mohave County scores _Moderate_ or worse\n\nWe scored 179 points across Mohave County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 1% of them come out Very High, while 1% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n39%\n\n59%\n\n**Very High** 1% · 2 of 179 points **High** 39% · 70 of 179 points **Moderate** 59% · 106 of 179 points **Low** 1% · 1 of 179 points\n\nSafest end we measured 14.5 near Meadview · Low\n\nMiddle of the county 48.4 Moderate — half of Mohave County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 83.1 near Beaver Dam · Very High\n\n### And the federal models agree it is a fire county\n\nRelatively High FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 98.8 / 100\n\n$14.1M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High\n\n0.24% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 0.59%\n\n6.14 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 98% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Mohave County: all-hazards risk Relatively High · social vulnerability Very High · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0057.\n\nSources: FEMA National Risk Index 1.20.0 (Dec 2025), county record · USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0, mean of the grid cells inside the county. Both describe the county as a whole, never an address in it.\n\nWhat does your Mohave County address score?\n\nA county range shows the spread. Your parcel sits somewhere inside it — the report says where, and what to do about it.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nLocal context\n\n## What the data says about _Mohave County_\n\nMost scored locations fall in the Moderate tier. The next largest group is High, with only a small number in Very High and Low.\n\nFor county-wide context, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Mohave County’s wildfire risk as Relatively High, and its expected annual loss from wildfire as Relatively High. The same FEMA index rates social vulnerability as Very High and community resilience as Very Low.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nWildfire has been a recurring part of Mohave County’s history. Since 1984, 506,026 acres have burned, which is 5.9% of the county, across 366 mapped fire perimeters.\n\nThe largest fire listed for this county is Cow (2005), at 44,625 acres. The most recent large fire is Havasu (2026).\n\nRecent large incidents in the list also include Pilot (2023), which is partly in the county, at 34,778 acres. Structure-loss details are not provided for the major fires listed here.\n\n366 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n506,026 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n5.9% of the county's area, as a share of 34,722.8 km²\n\nHavasu 2026 most recent large fire on record\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020s \n\nFire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.\n\nNamed fires on record\n\n-   **Basin Fire**202038,628 acres\n-   **Cow Fire**200544,625 acres\n-   **Hobble Complex Fire**201234,172 acres\n-   **Tweedy Com Fire**200535,639 acres\n-   **Mt. Bangs Fire**200529,572 acres\n-   **Pilot Fire**202334,778 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Black Rock Gulch Fire**200721,104 acres\n-   **Coyote Fire**199433,947 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Cow 2005. Perimeters are simplified for display; acreage is the figure the source records.\n\nCommunities\n\n## Where in the county you are _matters most_\n\nAmong named communities, risk levels differ quite a bit. Pine Lake has one of the highest overall medians at 69.6, while Meadview is much lower at 34.5.\n\nIn larger cities, Bullhead City is at 54.5, Lake Havasu City at 48.4, and Kingman at 44.0. Fort Mohave is lower at 40.9.\n\nSeveral smaller communities also score toward the higher end, including Wikieup at 58.2 and White Hills at 57.6. Others, such as Desert Hills at 35.2, sit notably lower.\n\nPine Lake village · 142 people\n\n69.6 _High_\n\nWikieup village · 135 people\n\n58.2 _High_\n\nWhite Hills village · 345 people\n\n57.6 _High_\n\nNew Kingman-Butler village · 12,907 people\n\n56.2 _High_\n\nScenic village · 1,321 people\n\n55.8 _High_\n\nDolan Springs village · 2,033 people\n\n55.5 _High_\n\nBullhead City city · 42,232 people\n\n54.5 _High_\n\nLittlefield village · 256 people\n\n53.5 _High_\n\nArizona Village village · 1,057 people\n\n53.2 _High_\n\nChloride village · 229 people\n\n51.4 _High_\n\n19 more communities in Mohave County\n\nCentennial Park village · 1,578 people\n\n51.3 _High_\n\nBeaver Dam village\n\n51.1 _High_\n\nLake Havasu City city · 59,358 people\n\n48.4 _Moderate_\n\nGolden Valley town · 8,801 people\n\n47.2 _Moderate_\n\nOatman village · 102 people\n\n46.6 _Moderate_\n\nGolden Shores village · 1,927 people\n\n46 _Moderate_\n\nHàkđugwi:v village · 1,098 people\n\n45.9 _Moderate_\n\nColorado City town · 2,478 people\n\n44.8 _Moderate_\n\nKingman city · 36,958 people\n\n44 _Moderate_\n\nWalnut Creek village · 571 people\n\n43.5 _Moderate_\n\nYucca village · 96 people\n\n42.6 _Moderate_\n\nMohave Valley village · 2,693 people\n\n42.1 _Moderate_\n\nFort Mohave town · 16,190 people\n\n40.9 _Moderate_\n\nTriangle Air Park village\n\n40.7 _Moderate_\n\nKaibab village · 140 people\n\n39.7 _Moderate_\n\nWillow Valley village · 1,059 people\n\n38 _Moderate_\n\nValle Vista village · 1,802 people\n\n35.8 _Moderate_\n\nDesert Hills village · 2,764 people\n\n35.2 _Moderate_\n\nMeadview village\n\n34.5 _Moderate_\n\nThe score is the median of the sampled points nearest that community — a community-scale indicator, not a score for any individual property in it. Population comes from the community's own record where the source carries one.\n\nTerrain & fuels\n\n## Terrain, vegetation and _fuels_\n\nFire weather was not measured for this county in the places we scored.\n\nTerrain is generally on the higher side in the county’s scoring pattern: the midpoint is 65.0, with a low of 40.0 in unincorporated Mohave County and a high of 65.0 near Wikieup.\n\nVegetation and fuels show a strong contrast by location. The midpoint is 78.2, with values up to 80.0 in unincorporated Mohave County, while one of the lowest measured values is 5.0 near Bullhead City.\n\n65 median terrain score (max 65 near Wikieup)\n\n78.2 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near unincorporated Mohave County)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Mohave County_\n\nFire weather was not measured at the sampled points in Mohave County. The other four indicators on this page were, and the bars below show what they found.\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nWildfire risk is not uniform across Mohave County. The highest overall score we saw was 83.1 near Beaver Dam, while the lowest was 14.5 in Meadview.\n\nBy tier counts, Moderate is the most common pattern in the county (106 scored points), followed by High (70). Very High appears at 2 points, and Low appears at 1 point.\n\nThat spread means two homes in the same county can sit in very different risk settings, even when both are in named communities.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Mohave County, on the same 0–100 scale. A long bar is a part of the risk that depends on where you are; a short one is the same almost everywhere.\n\nTerrain\n\n40–65 highest near Wikieup\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5–80 highest near unincorporated Mohave County\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–86.9 highest near Beaver Dam\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Arizona Village\n\nOverall score\n\n14.5–83.1 highest near Beaver Dam\n\nThe tick on each bar is the middle value. Tier boundaries — Moderate at 25, High at 50, Very High at 75 — are the faint lines behind them.\n\nShow every number behind these bars\n\nLayer\n\nMin\n\nMedian\n\nMax\n\nLowest place\n\nHighest place\n\nPoints\n\nTerrain\n\n40\n\n65\n\n65\n\nunincorporated Mohave County\n\nnear Wikieup\n\n179\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5\n\n78.2\n\n80\n\nnear Bullhead City\n\nunincorporated Mohave County\n\n179\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n38.8\n\n86.9\n\nunincorporated Mohave County\n\nnear Beaver Dam\n\n179\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n5\n\n95\n\nunincorporated Mohave County\n\nArizona Village\n\n179\n\nComposite\n\n14.5\n\n48.4\n\n83.1\n\nMeadview\n\nnear Beaver Dam\n\n179\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.24%** (90th percentile cell: **0.59%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **6.14 ft**. **98%** of the 22,394 grid cells inside the county carry burnable fuel at all.\n\nSource: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).\n\nCAL FIRE has no mapped Fire Hazard Severity Zone at **179** of the 179 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas, and most of this county is state or federal land. At **162** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead; at the remaining 17 the hazard weight is renormalised away rather than scored as low.\n\n179 sample points on a ~2.3 km grid, plus one at the centre of each community, weighted with the Satelife county profile v1 · median layer coverage 90%. Scores are 0–100 and comparable within the county, not across states.\n\nFor a property\n\n## What a county range means for _one address_\n\nTwo property-level patterns stand out in Mohave County: mapped hazard-zone differences and very uneven fire history. Hazard-zone values range from 10.0 in unincorporated Mohave County to 86.9 near Beaver Dam, with a midpoint of 38.8.\n\nPast-fire influence is concentrated in specific places rather than evenly spread. Fire-history values run from 5.0 in unincorporated Mohave County to 95.0 at Arizona Village, and the county midpoint is 5.0.\n\nA county label alone will miss these local swings. In practice, the wildfire risk tied to a specific home depends heavily on where it sits within the county.\n\nAcross 179 sampled points in Mohave County, the score runs from 14.5 to 83.1 — two neighbouring parcels can sit in different tiers. A county number is the middle of that spread; it says nothing about which end yours is at.\n\nFind out where your Mohave County parcel sits\n\nSlope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nCoverage\n\n## ZIP codes we cover in Mohave County\n\nEvery one of the 46 ZIP areas that touch Mohave County — we run address-level reports in all of them. They are grouped by the median score of the points we sampled inside each, which is a neighbourhood-scale indicator and **not** a score for any property: two homes in the same ZIP routinely land in different tiers.\n\n**High** 5 ZIPs\n\n-   [86442 Bullhead City59](/wildfire-risk/zip/86442/)\n-   [86432 Littlefield57](/wildfire-risk/zip/86432/)\n-   [86411 Valle Vista57](/wildfire-risk/zip/86411/)\n-   [86431 Chloride51](/wildfire-risk/zip/86431/)\n-   [86434 Hàkđugwi:v50](/wildfire-risk/zip/86434/)\n\n**Moderate** 20 ZIPs\n\n-   [85360 Wikieup49](/wildfire-risk/zip/85360/)\n-   [86021 Centennial Park49](/wildfire-risk/zip/86021/)\n-   [86401 Pine Lake48](/wildfire-risk/zip/86401/)\n-   [86403 Lake Havasu City48](/wildfire-risk/zip/86403/)\n-   [86413 Golden Valley48](/wildfire-risk/zip/86413/)\n-   [86438 Yucca48](/wildfire-risk/zip/86438/)\n-   [86409 Chloride48](/wildfire-risk/zip/86409/)\n-   [86440 Mohave Valley48](/wildfire-risk/zip/86440/)\n-   [86436 Golden Shores47](/wildfire-risk/zip/86436/)\n-   [86441 Dolan Springs47](/wildfire-risk/zip/86441/)\n-   [86429 Bullhead City46](/wildfire-risk/zip/86429/)\n-   [86443 Triangle Air Park45](/wildfire-risk/zip/86443/)\n-   [86433 Oatman45](/wildfire-risk/zip/86433/)\n-   [86445 Triangle Air Park45](/wildfire-risk/zip/86445/)\n-   [86022 Kaibab44](/wildfire-risk/zip/86022/)\n-   [86444 Meadview44](/wildfire-risk/zip/86444/)\n-   [86426 Fort Mohave41](/wildfire-risk/zip/86426/)\n-   [86437 Hàkđugwi:v39](/wildfire-risk/zip/86437/)\n-   [86406 Lake Havasu City38](/wildfire-risk/zip/86406/)\n-   [86404 Desert Hills35](/wildfire-risk/zip/86404/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 21 ZIPs\n\n[84737 Colorado City](/wildfire-risk/zip/84737/) · [84741](/wildfire-risk/zip/84741/) · [84767 Colorado City](/wildfire-risk/zip/84767/) · [84780](/wildfire-risk/zip/84780/) · [84784 Colorado City](/wildfire-risk/zip/84784/) · [84790 Beaver Dam](/wildfire-risk/zip/84790/) · [85325](/wildfire-risk/zip/85325/) · [85344](/wildfire-risk/zip/85344/) · [85357](/wildfire-risk/zip/85357/) · [86023](/wildfire-risk/zip/86023/) · [86052](/wildfire-risk/zip/86052/) · [86337](/wildfire-risk/zip/86337/) · [86435](/wildfire-risk/zip/86435/) · [89005](/wildfire-risk/zip/89005/) · [89007 Scenic](/wildfire-risk/zip/89007/) · [89027 Scenic](/wildfire-risk/zip/89027/) · [89029 Bullhead City](/wildfire-risk/zip/89029/) · [89040](/wildfire-risk/zip/89040/) · [89046 Triangle Air Park](/wildfire-risk/zip/89046/) · [92267 Lake Havasu City](/wildfire-risk/zip/92267/) · [92363 Golden Shores](/wildfire-risk/zip/92363/)\n\nGrouped from 25 of 46 ZIP areas — the rest had no sample point fall inside them. The community shown is the nearest mapped place to the ZIP's centre.\n\nZIP areas are Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas intersecting the county boundary.\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## Mohave County wildfire risk _in context_\n\n[Arizona wildfire risk The statewide picture and every county page we publish](/wildfire-risk/arizona/) [Wildfire risk by state Every state and county we cover](/wildfire-risk/) [How Satelife calculates wildfire risk Data sources, layers, score composition, honest limits](/wildfire-risk/methodology/) [Create a wildfire evacuation plan Zones, egress routes, refuge areas](/wildfire-evacuation-plan/) [Run a report for a Mohave County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Mohave County wildfire risk_\n\nWhat does a wildfire-risk score mean here?\n\nScores run from 0 to 100, and higher scores mean greater wildfire exposure for that location.\n\nIs most of Mohave County in the highest tier?\n\nNo. Most of the places scored in Mohave County are in the Moderate tier, with High as the next most common tier.\n\nHow much of the county has burned?\n\nSince 1984, 5.9% of Mohave County has burned, totaling 506,026 acres.\n\nWhat are the key fires to know?\n\nThe largest listed fire is Cow (2005), at 44,625 acres. The most recent large fire is Havasu (2026).\n\nDo you include fire weather in this county page?\n\nNo. Fire weather was not measured for this county in the places we scored.\n\nThis page is generated from a Mohave County data pack assembled on 2026-09-05 (pack v1.0). Scores are sampled across the county, not measured at any individual address, and are informational decision support — not a substitute for official evacuation orders, a fire-agency hazard determination, or an insurer's underwriting judgement. Data versions: fema\\_nri 1.20.0 (Dec 2025) · landfire per adapter · nifc\\_history All Years View · wfigs current · wrc v2.0 (2024) · zcta Census 2020.\n\n## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer?\n\nA county range shows the spread. An address-level Satelife report shows where in that spread your property actually sits — PDF, per-layer score, and a prioritized mitigation plan.\n\n[Start with your address →](/#cta)\n\n[![PRR](/images/prr.png)](/ficha-de-website-voucher-satelife.pdf)\n\n© 2024–2026 Satelife, Lda. All rights reserved.\n\nSatelife reports are for informational purposes only and do not constitute insurance, financial, or legal advice."
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