Nevada, TX
Nevada, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Nevada sits at the 68th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 747 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Nevada's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
Nevada's building exposure, zone by zone
55.2% of Nevada's 747 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 412 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 43.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.9% are Minimal.
How Nevada compares
Inside Texas, Nevada sits at just the 27th percentile even though it scores 68th 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, Nevada ranks 10,037 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,316 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nevada
Nevada's 68th-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
With 55.2% of Nevada 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nevada's 10,037-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nevada, see the exposure-zones guide.