Dakota City, NE
Dakota City wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dakota City at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 852 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dakota City at the 77th percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Where Dakota City's buildings actually sit
Dakota City rates 93.8% Minimal exposure against just 6.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 852 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Dakota City ranks
Dakota City scores 80th nationally and 86th 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, Dakota City ranks 6,211 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,149 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 80 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dakota City
Dakota City's very high rating (80th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 93.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Dakota City gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Dakota City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dakota City's 6,211-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dakota City's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.