Summerlin South, NV
Summerlin South, NV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Summerlin South's 12,458 buildings earn a 85th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Summerlin South at the 85th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Summerlin South's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Summerlin South's buildings (60.2%) 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 12,458 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Summerlin South compares
Summerlin South's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 37th ranking inside Nevada does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 48 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Summerlin South ranks 4,729 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,239 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 78 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Summerlin South
Summerlin South's very high rating (85th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Summerlin South
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Summerlin South (60.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Summerlin South's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Summerlin South's 4,729-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Summerlin South's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.