Nevada, IA
How exposed is Nevada to wildfire?
Nevada sits at the 11th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,471 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nevada at the 11th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Nevada's buildings actually sit
Most of Nevada's buildings (91.1% of 3,471) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Nevada ranks
Nevada scores 11th nationally and 21st within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nevada ranks 28,013 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,809 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 808 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nevada
At the 11th national percentile, Nevada rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 91.1% of Nevada 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nevada's 28,013-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Nevada, see the exposure-zones guide.