Crescent Valley, NV
Crescent Valley, NV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Crescent Valley at the 89th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 381 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crescent Valley at the 92nd percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Crescent Valley's 381 counted buildings, 91.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Crescent Valley ranks
Inside Nevada, Crescent Valley sits at just the 44th percentile even though it scores 89th 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, Crescent Valley ranks 3,438 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,625 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 69 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Crescent Valley and the insurance market
Crescent Valley's 89th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Crescent Valley (91.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Crescent Valley's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 381 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crescent Valley. The exposure-zones guide covers what Crescent Valley's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.