Golconda, NV
Golconda, NV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Golconda at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 194 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 Golconda at the 100th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Golconda's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Golconda: 82% of its 194 buildings, versus 18% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Golconda against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Golconda's 99th national percentile and its 94th percentile inside Nevada, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Golconda ranks 230 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,086 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 8 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Golconda
Golconda'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Golconda's 82% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Golconda's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Golconda, see the exposure-zones guide.