Auburn, NE
Auburn wildfire risk explained
Auburn sits at the 53rd 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 2,022 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 Auburn at the 53rd percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Auburn's buildings (92.4% of 2,022) 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.
How Auburn compares
There's little gap between Auburn's 53rd national percentile and its 40th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Auburn ranks 14,691 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,410 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 349 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Auburn and the insurance market
Auburn's elevated rating (53rd 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 92.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Auburn 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,022 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Auburn. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Auburn, see the exposure-zones guide.