Ainsworth, NE
Ainsworth wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ainsworth at the 60th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,256 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ainsworth at the 55th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Where Ainsworth's buildings actually sit
91.2% of Ainsworth's 1,256 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Ainsworth against the rest of the country
Ainsworth scores 60th nationally and 50th 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, Ainsworth ranks 12,678 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,317 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 290 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ainsworth
Ainsworth's elevated rating (60th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ainsworth gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ainsworth's 12,678-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ainsworth, see the exposure-zones guide.