Big Springs, NE
Big Springs, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Big Springs at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 373 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Big Springs at the 69th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Big Springs's buildings (81.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Big Springs against the rest of the country
Big Springs scores 69th nationally and 67th 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, Big Springs ranks 9,677 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,809 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 193 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Big Springs
At the 69th percentile nationally, Big Springs carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 81.8% of Big Springs's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Big Springs's 69th-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 Big Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.