Paradise, NV
Paradise wildfire risk explained
Paradise's 52,257 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Paradise at the 18th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Paradise's buildings (99.3% of 52,257) 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 52,257 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Paradise compares
Inside Nevada, Paradise sits at just the 3rd percentile even though it scores 19th 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, Paradise ranks 25,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 163 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 119 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 19th national percentile, Paradise 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
With 99.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Paradise gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 52,257 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Paradise. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Paradise, see the exposure-zones guide.