Wadsworth, NV
Wadsworth wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wadsworth at the 88th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 488 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wadsworth's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 89th percentile nationally.
Where Wadsworth's buildings actually sit
488 buildings are counted in Wadsworth, and 87.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 12.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Wadsworth against the rest of the country
Inside Nevada, Wadsworth sits at just the 42nd percentile even though it scores 88th 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, Wadsworth ranks 3,754 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,572 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 72 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Wadsworth and the insurance market
At the 88th percentile nationally, Wadsworth 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
Because 87.5% of Wadsworth's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wadsworth's 3,754-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wadsworth, see the exposure-zones guide.