Caliente, NV
How exposed is Caliente to wildfire?
Caliente sits at the 87th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 647 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Caliente at the 83rd percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Where Caliente's buildings actually sit
Most of Caliente's buildings (77.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Caliente against the rest of the country
Caliente's 87th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 40th ranking inside Nevada does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 47 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Caliente ranks 4,068 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,234 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 74 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Caliente and the insurance market
Caliente's 87th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Caliente
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Caliente (77.9% 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 Caliente's 4,068-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Caliente, see the exposure-zones guide.