Grass Valley, NV
Grass Valley wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grass Valley at the 97th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 836 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grass Valley at the 98th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Grass Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
836 buildings are counted in Grass Valley, and 99% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Grass Valley ranks
Inside Nevada, Grass Valley sits at just the 66th percentile even though it scores 97th 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, Grass Valley ranks 853 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,291 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 41 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 97th percentile nationally, Grass Valley carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Grass Valley
With 99% of Grass Valley in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Grass Valley's 97th-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 Grass Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.