Abie, NE
Abie wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Abie at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 87 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Abie at the 41st national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Abie's buildings actually sit
Most of Abie's buildings (87.4% of 87) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Abie compares
Abie scores 47th nationally and 32nd within Nebraska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Abie ranks 16,801 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,621 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 395 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Abie
Abie's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 87.4% of Abie outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Abie's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Abie's 16,801-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Abie's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.