Byron, NE
Byron, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Byron at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 139 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Byron at the 10th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 8.6% of Byron's 139 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Byron against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Byron's 14th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Byron ranks 27,268 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,338 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 548 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Byron
At the 14th national percentile, Byron rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Byron's 91.4% 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
Byron's 14th-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 Byron, see the exposure-zones guide.