Boulder City, NV
Boulder City, NV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Boulder City at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 7,456 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Boulder City at the 57th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
7,456 buildings are counted in Boulder City, and 94.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal. At 7,456 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Boulder City against the rest of the country
Boulder City ranks lower within Nevada (15th percentile statewide) than its 53rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boulder City ranks 14,783 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,292 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 105 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Boulder City's elevated wildfire rating (53rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Boulder City (94.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Boulder City's 14,783-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Boulder City, see the exposure-zones guide.