Bladen, NE
Bladen, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Bladen at the 18th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 209 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 Bladen at the 14th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
Bladen's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 13.4% of Bladen's 209 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Bladen against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Bladen's 18th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bladen ranks 25,752 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,524 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 531 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Bladen and the insurance market
Bladen's low wildfire rating (18th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Bladen's 86.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 209 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bladen. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bladen, see the exposure-zones guide.