Ansley, NE
How exposed is Ansley to wildfire?
USFS scores Ansley at the 89th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 431 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ansley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Ansley's building exposure, zone by zone
90% of Ansley's 431 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 10% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Ansley against the rest of the country
Ansley's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ansley ranks 3,503 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,630 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 18 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
Ansley's 89th-percentile, very 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
Because 90% of Ansley's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Ansley's 89th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ansley, see the exposure-zones guide.