Anselmo, NE
Anselmo, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Anselmo's 153 buildings earn a 68th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Anselmo at the 66th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Anselmo's building exposure, zone by zone
153 buildings are counted in Anselmo, and 83% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 17% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Anselmo against the rest of the country
Anselmo scores 68th nationally and 66th 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, Anselmo ranks 9,997 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,761 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 201 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Anselmo's 68th-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.
Hardening a home in Anselmo
Anselmo's 83% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Anselmo's 9,997-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Anselmo, see the exposure-zones guide.