Silver Peak, NV
How exposed is Silver Peak to wildfire?
Silver Peak sits at the 3rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 162 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 Silver Peak at the 5th percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 53.1% of Silver Peak's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.6% Direct and 33.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Silver Peak against the rest of the country
Silver Peak's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nevada (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (3rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Silver Peak ranks 30,585 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,347 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 123 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Silver Peak and the insurance market
Silver Peak's low rating (3rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 53.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Silver Peak 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Silver Peak's 30,585-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Silver Peak, see the exposure-zones guide.