Boys Town, NE
How exposed is Boys Town to wildfire?
Boys Town's 139 buildings earn a 57th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Boys Town at the 60th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Where Boys Town's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 84.2% of Boys Town's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Boys Town ranks
There's little gap between Boys Town's 57th national percentile and its 46th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boys Town ranks 13,399 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,337 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 315 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boys Town
Boys Town's elevated rating (57th 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 Boys Town
Boys Town's 84.2% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Boys Town's 13,399-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Boys Town, see the exposure-zones guide.