Amargosa Valley, NV
How exposed is Amargosa Valley to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Amargosa Valley lands at the 35th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,166 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Amargosa Valley at the 46th percentile, higher than its 35th-percentile risk score, because relatively few of its buildings sit in harm's way.
Amargosa Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
1,166 buildings are counted in Amargosa Valley, and 71.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.3% rated Minimal.
Amargosa Valley against the rest of the country
Amargosa Valley ranks lower within Nevada (8th percentile statewide) than its 35th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Amargosa Valley ranks 20,457 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,860 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 113 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Amargosa Valley
At the 35th national percentile, Amargosa Valley rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Amargosa Valley's 71.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Amargosa Valley's 20,457-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Amargosa Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.