Beacon View, NE
How exposed is Beacon View to wildfire?
USFS scores Beacon View at the 66th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 33 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Beacon View at the 63rd percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Where Beacon View's buildings actually sit
72.7% of Beacon View's 33 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 24 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 27.3% are Minimal.
Beacon View against the rest of the country
Beacon View's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (60th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (66th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beacon View ranks 10,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,318 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 232 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beacon View
Beacon View's 66th-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Beacon View
Beacon View's 72.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 33 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Beacon View. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Beacon View, see the exposure-zones guide.