Bartley, NE
How exposed is Bartley to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bartley lands at the 44th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 353 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bartley at the 43rd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
353 buildings are counted in Bartley, and 83.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Bartley against the rest of the country
Bartley's 44th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 28th ranking inside Nebraska does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bartley ranks 17,746 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,236 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 420 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Bartley and the insurance market
Bartley's elevated rating (44th 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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Bartley (83.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Bartley's 44th-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 Bartley, see the exposure-zones guide.