Crookston, NE
Crookston wildfire risk explained
Crookston's 98 buildings earn a 85th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crookston at the 86th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Crookston's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 61.2% of Crookston's 98 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 38.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Crookston compares
Crookston scores 85th nationally and 93rd within Nebraska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crookston ranks 4,638 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,137 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 43 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Crookston and the insurance market
Crookston's very high rating (85th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 61.2% of Crookston's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crookston's 4,638-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Crookston, see the exposure-zones guide.