North Las Vegas, NV
North Las Vegas, NV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
North Las Vegas sits at the 65th 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 77,335 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North Las Vegas at the 67th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of North Las Vegas's buildings (93% of 77,335) 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. At 77,335 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where North Las Vegas ranks
North Las Vegas's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 22nd ranking inside Nevada does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Las Vegas ranks 11,195 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 95 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 96 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
North Las Vegas and the insurance market
North Las Vegas's 65th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 93% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, North Las Vegas gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where North Las Vegas's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 77,335 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for North Las Vegas. The exposure-zones guide covers what North Las Vegas's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.