Alamo, NV
Alamo, NV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Alamo sits at the 67th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 615 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Alamo at the 65th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 57.7% of Alamo's 615 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 42.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Alamo compares
Inside Nevada, Alamo sits at just the 26th percentile even though it scores 67th 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, Alamo ranks 10,469 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,631 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 91 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Alamo and the insurance market
Alamo's 67th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Alamo's 57.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 615 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Alamo. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Alamo, see the exposure-zones guide.