Winchester, NV
How exposed is Winchester to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Winchester lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 7,153 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Winchester's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Winchester rates 99.8% Minimal exposure against just 0.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,153 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,153 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Winchester compares
Winchester's 17th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 2nd ranking inside Nevada does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winchester ranks 26,254 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,396 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nevada alone, it ranks 121 of 123 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nevada on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 17th national percentile, Winchester rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Winchester's 99.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Winchester's figures come from
Winchester's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Winchester's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.