Moapa Valley, NV
Moapa Valley wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Moapa Valley at the 64th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,906 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 Moapa Valley at the 70th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Moapa Valley (53.4% of 3,906 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 46.6% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Moapa Valley ranks
Inside Nevada, Moapa Valley sits at just the 21st percentile even though it scores 64th 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, Moapa Valley ranks 11,479 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,333 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 98 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Moapa Valley and the insurance market
Moapa Valley's 64th-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 Moapa Valley
Moapa Valley's 53.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Moapa Valley's 11,479-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Moapa Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.