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.
We 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.
FEMA NRI also rates Mohave County: all-hazards risk Relatively High · social vulnerability Very High · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0057.
Sources: 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.
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Most scored locations fall in the Moderate tier. The next largest group is High, with only a small number in Very High and Low.
For 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.
Wildfire 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.
The largest fire listed for this county is Cow (2005), at 44,625 acres. The most recent large fire is Havasu (2026).
Recent 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.
Fire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.
Perimeter 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.
Among 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.
In 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.
Several 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.
The 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.
Fire weather was not measured for this county in the places we scored.
Terrain 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.
Vegetation 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.
Fire 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.
Wildfire 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.
By 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.
That spread means two homes in the same county can sit in very different risk settings, even when both are in named communities.
Each 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.
The 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.
| Layer | Min | Median | Max | Lowest place | Highest place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrain | 40 | 65 | 65 | unincorporated Mohave County | near Wikieup | 179 |
| Vegetation & fuels | 5 | 78.2 | 80 | near Bullhead City | unincorporated Mohave County | 179 |
| Hazard zone | 10 | 38.8 | 86.9 | unincorporated Mohave County | near Beaver Dam | 179 |
| Fire history | 5 | 5 | 95 | unincorporated Mohave County | Arizona Village | 179 |
| Composite | 14.5 | 48.4 | 83.1 | Meadview | near Beaver Dam | 179 |
Independently 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.
Source: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).
CAL 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.
179 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.
Two 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.
Past-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.
A 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.
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Slope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.
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Every 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.
High 5 ZIPs
Moderate 20 ZIPs
No sampled point inside 21 ZIPs
84737 Colorado City · 84741 · 84767 Colorado City · 84780 · 84784 Colorado City · 84790 Beaver Dam · 85325 · 85344 · 85357 · 86023 · 86052 · 86337 · 86435 · 89005 · 89007 Scenic · 89027 Scenic · 89029 Bullhead City · 89040 · 89046 Triangle Air Park · 92267 Lake Havasu City · 92363 Golden Shores
Grouped 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.
ZIP areas are Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas intersecting the county boundary.
Scores run from 0 to 100, and higher scores mean greater wildfire exposure for that location.
No. Most of the places scored in Mohave County are in the Moderate tier, with High as the next most common tier.
Since 1984, 5.9% of Mohave County has burned, totaling 506,026 acres.
The largest listed fire is Cow (2005), at 44,625 acres. The most recent large fire is Havasu (2026).
No. Fire weather was not measured for this county in the places we scored.
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