Ruhenstroth, NV
Ruhenstroth wildfire risk explained
Ruhenstroth's 890 buildings earn a 97th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ruhenstroth's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 97th percentile nationally.
Ruhenstroth's building exposure, zone by zone
890 buildings are counted in Ruhenstroth, and 69.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 30.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Ruhenstroth ranks
Inside Nevada, Ruhenstroth sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 97th 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, Ruhenstroth ranks 974 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,813 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 47 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
Ruhenstroth's 97th-percentile, very 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
Because 69.3% of Ruhenstroth'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 Ruhenstroth's figures come from
Ruhenstroth's 97th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ruhenstroth's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.