Ceresco, NE
Ceresco, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ceresco at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 492 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ceresco at the 54th national percentile — 8 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ceresco's building exposure, zone by zone
Ceresco rates 92.3% Minimal exposure against just 7.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 492 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Ceresco ranks
There's little gap between Ceresco's 63rd national percentile and its 55th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ceresco ranks 11,793 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,498 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 264 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ceresco
Ceresco's 63rd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Ceresco
Even with 92.3% of Ceresco 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ceresco's 11,793-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ceresco, see the exposure-zones guide.