Washoe Valley, NV
Washoe Valley wildfire risk explained
Washoe Valley's 2,268 buildings earn a 97th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Washoe Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 97th percentile nationally.
Washoe Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Washoe Valley's 2,268 counted buildings, 93.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Washoe Valley ranks
Washoe Valley's 97th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 66th ranking inside Nevada does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Washoe Valley ranks 885 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,774 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 43 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Washoe Valley
Washoe Valley's very high rating (97th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 93.7% of Washoe Valley 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Washoe Valley's 885-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Washoe Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.