Silver Springs, NV
Silver Springs, NV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Silver Springs lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 3,914 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Silver Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
Where Silver Springs's buildings actually sit
Of Silver Springs's 3,914 counted buildings, 67.4% carry Direct exposure and only 13.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Silver Springs compares
Inside Nevada, Silver Springs sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 87th 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, Silver Springs ranks 4,041 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,324 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 73 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Silver Springs and the insurance market
Silver Springs's 87th-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
With 67.4% of Silver Springs 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,914 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Silver Springs. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Silver Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.