Cheney, NE
Cheney, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cheney at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 130 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cheney at the 72nd percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Cheney's building exposure, zone by zone
Cheney rates 90% Minimal exposure against just 10% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 130 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Cheney compares
There's little gap between Cheney's 78th national percentile and its 83rd percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cheney ranks 7,026 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,724 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 102 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cheney
Cheney's high rating (78th 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 Cheney
With 90% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cheney gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 130 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cheney. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cheney, see the exposure-zones guide.