Spanish Springs, NV
Spanish Springs, NV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Spanish Springs lands at the 99th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 8,142 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Spanish Springs at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Spanish Springs's buildings actually sit
Most of Spanish Springs's buildings (68%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 8,142 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Spanish Springs ranks
There's little gap between Spanish Springs's 99th national percentile and its 88th percentile inside Nevada, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Spanish Springs ranks 450 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,062 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 17 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Spanish Springs and the insurance market
At the 99th percentile nationally, Spanish Springs carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Spanish Springs's 68% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Spanish Springs's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Spanish Springs's 450-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Spanish Springs's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.