Brownlee, NE
Brownlee, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brownlee at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 21 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 Brownlee at the 91st percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Brownlee's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Brownlee's 21 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 21 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal. This is a small settlement by building count — 21 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Brownlee compares
Brownlee's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (99th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (92nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownlee ranks 2,555 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,454 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 7 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Brownlee and the insurance market
Brownlee's very high rating (92nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Brownlee's 100% 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 Brownlee's 2,555-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. At 21 buildings, Brownlee is close to the size where USFS's data gets thin — the data-quality guide explains why 517 places nationally get no score at all.