Johnson Lane is a residential community in Douglas County, 4,818 feet up, in hardiness zone 6b. This sheet puts it beside Douglas County, Nevada and the United States, adds the wildfire ranking, the nearest NOAA stations and the large fires mapped within about 10 miles. Its numbers are tidier than most because the community is so uniform.
A uniform community
No homes predate 1960 (0.0%), 16.6% predate 1980, and 37.3% date from 2000 or later; the median year is 1995. Owner-occupancy is 94.0% and single-family detached homes are 94.9%, tied for the highest on any sheet. Mobile homes are 0.0%. The median value, $764,100, is the highest on our Douglas County sheets and well above the county's $615,400.
Heating is ordinary: wood for 1.6% of households (county 4.5%) and bottled gas for 2.7% (county 8.1%).
Rank and exposure
Risk to homes ranks above 98.3% of US communities and above 82.8% of Nevada communities, higher than Douglas County as a whole (97.3% and 68.8%). Of 3,917 counted buildings, 28.0% are directly exposed and 72.0% indirectly, with none in the minimal zone. This is a high-value community with no low-exposure pocket.
Of 11 fire records within about 10 miles, none is closer than 6.5 miles: the Hwy 50 fire of 2003 (588 acres, listed twice), Voltaire in 2018 (517 acres, 7.0 miles) and S Pinenut in 1983 (1,797 acres, 7.3 miles). The Waterfall fire of 2004 (8,765 acres) has its center 9.8 miles away.
What high value and high exposure mean for a tree
High-value homes make the work here a matter of the distance between trees and the house. Defensible space is the lead question; lot clearing and brush mowing extend it into the outer zone, while trimming lifts crowns off the roof. In the UNR Extension Living With Fire system, Zone 1 is 5 to 30 feet from the house and Zone 2 is 30 to 100 feet; our defensible space guide explains both.
The yard is 16.9 miles away, about 28 minutes without traffic.
Weather and caution
Carson City, 5.9 miles from the town point at 4,761 feet, and Minden, 7.1 miles at 4,709 feet, both qualify as comparison stations. They differ: 14.0 inches of snow at Carson City, 21.8 at Minden. Dagget Pass, 10.3 miles away and 2,500 feet higher, does not.
Census estimates for a place of 2,576 households carry real margins of error, so read 94.0% as roughly nine in ten.
Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates (pulled October 1, 2026)
- USDA Forest Service: Wildfire Risk to Communities (tabular download dated April 15, 2026) (pulled October 1, 2026)
- NOAA NCEI: U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (pulled October 1, 2026)
- National Interagency Fire Center: InterAgency Fire Perimeter History and WFIGS perimeters (pulled October 1, 2026)
- University of Nevada, Reno Extension: Living With Fire (read October 1, 2026)