Blair, NE
Blair wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blair at the 74th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,638 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 Blair at the 67th percentile, close to its 74th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
3,638 buildings are counted in Blair, and 54.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 17.3% in Direct exposure or the 28.1% rated Minimal.
Where Blair ranks
Blair scores 74th nationally and 75th 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, Blair ranks 8,293 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,605 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 146 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Blair and the insurance market
Blair's 74th-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 Blair
Because 54.5% of Blair'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.
Where Blair's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,638 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blair. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blair's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.