Bristow, NE
How exposed is Bristow to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bristow at the 82nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 102 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 Bristow at the 78th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
Bristow's building exposure, zone by zone
51% of Bristow's 102 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 52 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 49% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Bristow against the rest of the country
Bristow's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (90th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (82nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bristow ranks 5,705 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,963 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 60 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Bristow's very high rating (82nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Bristow
Bristow's 51% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bristow's 5,705-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bristow, see the exposure-zones guide.