Nevada, MO
Nevada wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Nevada lands at the 63rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,858 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nevada at the 65th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
40.8% of Nevada's 4,858 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 21.3% Direct and 37.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Nevada against the rest of the country
Nevada scores 63rd nationally and 63rd within Missouri — 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 11,694 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,520 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 394 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Nevada's 63rd-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 Nevada
Because 40.8% of Nevada's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Nevada's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nevada's 11,694-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Nevada's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.