Colon, NE
How exposed is Colon to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Colon lands at the 38th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 121 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Colon at the 36th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Colon's building exposure, zone by zone
86.8% of Colon's 121 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Colon against the rest of the country
Colon's 38th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 22nd ranking inside Nebraska does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Colon ranks 19,537 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,118 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 455 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Colon
Colon's moderate rating (38th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Colon
Even with 86.8% of Colon 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
Colon's 38th-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 Colon, see the exposure-zones guide.