Dayton, NV
How exposed is Dayton to wildfire?
Dayton sits at the 99th 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 6,702 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dayton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 99th percentile nationally.
Where Dayton's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Dayton (72.6% of 6,702 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 27.4% sit in the Direct zone. At 6,702 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Dayton against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Dayton's 99th national percentile and its 90th percentile inside Nevada, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dayton ranks 355 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,584 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 13 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dayton
Dayton's 99th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Dayton's 72.6% 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 6,702 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dayton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dayton, see the exposure-zones guide.