Bazile Mills, NE
Bazile Mills wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Bazile Mills at the 84th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 34 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bazile Mills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
Where Bazile Mills's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 100% of Bazile Mills's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 34 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Bazile Mills compares
Bazile Mills scores 84th nationally and 91st 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, Bazile Mills ranks 5,170 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,294 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 51 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
Bazile Mills's 84th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bazile Mills (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 34 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bazile Mills. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bazile Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.