Bruning, NE
Bruning, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bruning at the 17th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 286 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 Bruning at the 12th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Bruning's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 7.7% of Bruning's 286 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Bruning against the rest of the country
Bruning's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (8th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (17th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bruning ranks 26,134 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,013 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 536 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Bruning and the insurance market
Bruning's low wildfire rating (17th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 92.3% of Bruning outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Bruning's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bruning, see the exposure-zones guide.