I’ve spent 20 minutes googling for military land use by state and I can’t find anything useful. I am having a hard time figuring out if Nevada or California have the most land used by various military bases (or if even perhaps I’ve overlooked some other state). Nellis and the Nevada Test Range are huge, but so is 29 Palms, Fort Irwin and China Lake.
Can anyone point me in the direction a good list?
Not really an answer so much, but I had this map from National Geographic on my wall for a while, outlining how much federal land there is in the US.
I’m having trouble finding a list, but I think Alaska has got to be way up there. Red Flag Alaska has a training area of 67,000 square miles. To compare, the Nellis Training Range is like 12,000 or so, and the entire state of Nevada is 110,000 square miles.
But that’s not actual federal range in its entirety; that total includes restricted airspace over non-base lands, I believe.
Map of land ownership in Alaska. Looks like military reservations make up a relatively small percentage of total ownership, though in Alaskan terms, that could easily be more than many states. No raw figures.
A nice map, but useless for determining the answer to the question posed in the OP.
So apparently this is not easily accessible information. Spent another 30 minutes on Google and really couldn’t find anything. I’m about to resort to manually adding up the acreage and comparing. I guess it would make for a good website.