Enterprise, NV
Enterprise wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Enterprise at the 77th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 72,438 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Enterprise's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Enterprise's building exposure, zone by zone
Enterprise rates 55.9% Minimal exposure against just 7.8% Direct and 36.2% Indirect — of 72,438 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 72,438 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Enterprise against the rest of the country
Inside Nevada, Enterprise sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 77th 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, Enterprise ranks 7,155 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 105 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 85 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Enterprise and the insurance market
Enterprise's 77th-percentile, 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 Enterprise
Even with 55.9% of Enterprise outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 72,438 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Enterprise. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Enterprise, see the exposure-zones guide.