Blue Hill, NE
Blue Hill wildfire risk explained
Blue Hill sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 557 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blue Hill at the 20th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Blue Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 87.3% of Blue Hill's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Blue Hill against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Blue Hill's 24th national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Hill ranks 23,924 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,460 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 515 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blue Hill
Blue Hill's moderate rating (24th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Blue Hill
Blue Hill's 87.3% 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 557 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blue Hill. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blue Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.