--- title: "Wildfire Risk in Yuma County, Arizona 2026 | Satelife" description: "Wildfire risk in Yuma County spans a wide range in the places we scored, from 15.0 in Somerton to 80.0 near Tacna, with a county middle point of 45.0. Most scored places fall in the Moderate tier (110 points), with fewer in High (47 points)." image: "https://satelife.ai/images/wildfire-risk/arizona/yuma-county/generated/yuma-county-locator.webp" canonical: "https://satelife.ai/wildfire-risk/arizona/yuma-county/" --- [Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[Arizona](/wildfire-risk/arizona/)›Yuma County Yuma County, Arizona # Wildfire risk in Yuma County: _where it is highest_, and why Wildfire risk in Yuma County spans a wide range in the places we scored, from 15.0 in Somerton to 80.0 near Tacna, with a county middle point of 45.0. Most scored places fall in the Moderate tier (110 points), with fewer in High (47 points). [Score my Yuma County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance) Before 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity Yuma County — the largest fires on record, at their perimeter centres, with the county’s main communities. Select a marker for its detail. At a glance ## Half of Yuma County scores _Moderate_ or worse We scored 160 points across Yuma 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. 29% 69% **Very High** 1% · 1 of 160 points **High** 29% · 47 of 160 points **Moderate** 69% · 110 of 160 points **Low** 1% · 2 of 160 points Safest end we measured 15 near Somerton · Low Middle of the county 45 Moderate — half of Yuma County is above this Most exposed end we measured 80 near Tacna · Very High ### And the federal models agree it is a fire county Very Low FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 59.2 / 100 $58k / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Very Low 0.03% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 0.06% 1.81 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 90% of the county carries burnable fuel FEMA NRI also rates Yuma County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Relatively High · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0005. 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. What does your Yuma County address score? A county range shows the spread. Your parcel sits somewhere inside it — the report says where, and what to do about it. Free to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan Local context ## What the data says about _Yuma County_ FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Yuma County’s wildfire risk as "Very Low" and its wildfire expected annual loss as "Very Low." In the same FEMA index, the county’s all-hazards risk is "Relatively Moderate." The USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities product reports a mean annual burn probability of 0.03% for the county, and 0.06% at the 90th-percentile cell. It also indicates 89.8% of the county can burn. Fire record ## Where the fires _actually were_ Since 1984, 8,557 acres have burned within mapped fire perimeters in Yuma County, across 51 perimeters. That equals 0.2% of the county. The largest fire listed here is Bermuda (2019), at 1,200 acres. The most recent large fire is Refuge (2024), at 1,042 acres. Other named fires in the county record include Walker (2014), Antelope Assist (2016), Laguna (2011), Aztec (2009), Gila River (2007), and River (2023). 51 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984 8,557 acres inside those perimeters since 1984 0.2% of the county's area, as a share of 14,248.5 km² Refuge 2024 most recent large fire on record Before 20002000s2010s2020s Fire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size. Named fires on record - **Bermuda Fire**20191,200 acres - **Refuge Fire**20241,042 acres - **Walker Fire**20141,108 acres - **Antelope Assist Fire**2016921 acres - **Laguna Fire**2011731 acres - **Aztec Fire**2009468 acres - **Gila River Fire**2007482 acres - **River Fire**2023250 acres Perimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Bermuda 2019. Perimeters are simplified for display; acreage is the figure the source records. Communities ## Where in the county you are _matters most_ Among the larger communities shown, San Luis has a higher typical wildfire risk score at 48.3 than Yuma at 37.7. Fortuna Foothills and Wellton are both at 38.5. Several smaller places are also on the higher side, including Avenue B & C at 55.0 and Cocopah at 48.0. Gadsden is 43.8, while Dateland is 36.1. These are place-level patterns, not a single value for every property in town boundaries. Avenue B & C village · 4,176 people 55 _High_ San Luis town · 40,064 people 48.3 _Moderate_ Cocopah village 48 _Moderate_ Gadsden village · 1,314 people 43.8 _Moderate_ Fortuna Foothills town · 28,135 people 38.5 _Moderate_ Wellton town · 2,648 people 38.5 _Moderate_ Yuma city · 103,559 people 37.7 _Moderate_ Dateland village · 322 people 36.1 _Moderate_ Somerton town · 14,902 people 33.8 _Moderate_ Tacna village · 555 people 33.8 _Moderate_ 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. Terrain & fuels ## Terrain, vegetation and _fuels_ Terrain-related risk runs from 20.0 near Fortuna Foothills up to 65.0 in Fortuna Foothills, with a middle value of 40.0 countywide in the places scored. Vegetation and fuels are elevated in much of the county: the middle value is 80.0, with a low of 20.0 in Yuma and a high of 80.0 in unincorporated Yuma County. Fire weather was not measured for Yuma County on this page. 40 median terrain score (max 65 near Fortuna Foothills) 80 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near unincorporated Yuma County) Fire weather ## Fire weather across _Yuma County_ Fire weather was not measured at the sampled points in Yuma County. The other four indicators on this page were, and the bars below show what they found. What drives it ## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't Risk is not uniform across Yuma County. The highest scored location is near Tacna at 80.0, while the lowest is in Somerton at 15.0. Across the four address-style tiers, Moderate appears most often, while Very High appears only once among the places scored. This points to mostly mid-range risk with a smaller set of higher-risk pockets. At the community level, scores also spread out: Avenue B & C is at 55.0, while Somerton and Tacna are both at 33.8. Each bar is what one part of the score covers across Yuma 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. Terrain 20–65 highest near Fortuna Foothills Vegetation & fuels 20–80 highest near unincorporated Yuma County Hazard zone 10–45.5 highest near unincorporated Yuma County Fire history 5–95 highest near Cocopah Overall score 15–80 highest near Tacna 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. Show every number behind these bars Layer Min Median Max Lowest place Highest place Points Terrain 20 40 65 near Fortuna Foothills Fortuna Foothills 158 Vegetation & fuels 20 80 80 Yuma unincorporated Yuma County 160 Hazard zone 10 10 45.5 unincorporated Yuma County unincorporated Yuma County 160 Fire history 5 5 95 unincorporated Yuma County Cocopah 160 Composite 15 45 80 Somerton near Tacna 160 Independently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.03%** (90th percentile cell: **0.06%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **1.81 ft**. **90%** of the 26,057 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 **160** of the 160 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas, and most of this county is state or federal land. At **70** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead; at the remaining 90 the hazard weight is renormalised away rather than scored as low. 160 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 60%. Scores are 0–100 and comparable within the county, not across states. For a property ## What a county range means for _one address_ Two mapped factors help explain why nearby properties can differ: hazard zone and local fire history. Hazard-zone values are low to moderate in this county, with a middle of 10.0 and a high of 45.5, both in unincorporated Yuma County. Fire-history values are low in many places but can spike: the middle value is 5.0, while the high reaches 95.0 in Cocopah. That contrast is associated with sharper property-to-property differences in some areas. For a specific home, use the exact location result and then compare it to nearby blocks, because county and town summaries can hide street-level changes. Across 160 sampled points in Yuma County, the score runs from 15 to 80 — 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. Find out where your Yuma County parcel sits Slope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county. Free to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan Coverage ## ZIP codes we cover in Yuma County Every one of the 15 ZIP areas that touch Yuma 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** 1 ZIP - [85364 Avenue B & C50](/wildfire-risk/zip/85364/) **Moderate** 9 ZIPs - [85365 47](/wildfire-risk/zip/85365/) - [85349 San Luis45](/wildfire-risk/zip/85349/) - [85336 San Luis44](/wildfire-risk/zip/85336/) - [85347 Tacna40](/wildfire-risk/zip/85347/) - [85350 Somerton38](/wildfire-risk/zip/85350/) - [85333 Dateland37](/wildfire-risk/zip/85333/) - [85356 Wellton37](/wildfire-risk/zip/85356/) - [85352 Tacna35](/wildfire-risk/zip/85352/) - [85367 Fortuna Foothills28](/wildfire-risk/zip/85367/) **No sampled point inside** 5 ZIPs [85328](/wildfire-risk/zip/85328/) · [85346](/wildfire-risk/zip/85346/) · [85354](/wildfire-risk/zip/85354/) · [92266](/wildfire-risk/zip/92266/) · [92283 Avenue B & C](/wildfire-risk/zip/92283/) Grouped from 10 of 15 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. Where to go next ## Yuma County wildfire risk _in context_ [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 Yuma County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta) FAQ ## Frequently asked questions about _Yuma County wildfire risk_ What does a wildfire risk score mean here? Scores run from 0 to 100, and higher means more exposed to wildfire risk. In Yuma County, the places scored range from 15.0 to 80.0. How much of Yuma County has burned since 1984? 8,557 acres have burned since 1984, which is 0.2% of the county. What are the most important recent fires to know? The largest fire listed is Bermuda (2019) at 1,200 acres. The most recent large fire is Refuge (2024) at 1,042 acres. Is fire weather included in this county page? No. Fire weather was not measured for Yuma County on this page. How do FEMA’s county ratings compare with local scores? They answer different questions. FEMA’s National Risk Index gives county-wide ratings, and for Yuma County it rates wildfire risk as "Very Low." Local scores on this page show how risk varies between places inside the county. This page is generated from a Yuma 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. ## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer? A 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. [Start with your address →](/#cta) [![PRR](/images/prr.png)](/ficha-de-website-voucher-satelife.pdf) © 2024–2026 Satelife, Lda. All rights reserved. Satelife reports are for informational purposes only and do not constitute insurance, financial, or legal advice.