Archer, NE
Archer, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Archer sits at the 46th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 107 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Archer at the 41st percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Archer rates 72.9% Minimal exposure against just 27.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 107 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Archer compares
Archer's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (31st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (46th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Archer ranks 17,021 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,741 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 401 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Archer
Archer's elevated rating (46th 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
Archer's 72.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 107 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Archer. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Archer, see the exposure-zones guide.