Alexandria, NE
How exposed is Alexandria to wildfire?
USFS scores Alexandria at the 74th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 183 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Alexandria's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 65th percentile nationally.
Where Alexandria's buildings actually sit
Most of Alexandria's buildings (67.8% of 183) 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.
Where Alexandria ranks
There's little gap between Alexandria's 74th national percentile and its 75th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alexandria ranks 8,325 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,506 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 147 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Alexandria and the insurance market
Alexandria's 74th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Alexandria's 67.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Alexandria's 8,325-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Alexandria, see the exposure-zones guide.