Silver City, NV
Silver City, NV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Silver City at the 98th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 137 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Silver City at the 98th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Silver City's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Silver City's 137 counted buildings, 59.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Silver City ranks
Silver City scores 98th nationally and 84th within Nevada — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Silver City ranks 512 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,409 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 20 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Silver City
Silver City's 98th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 59.9% of Silver City 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.
Where Silver City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Silver City's 512-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Silver City's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.