Dalton, NE
Dalton wildfire risk explained
Dalton's 291 buildings earn a 51st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dalton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
Dalton's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 89% of Dalton's 291 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 11% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Dalton compares
Dalton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (38th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (51st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dalton ranks 15,352 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,881 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 360 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dalton
Dalton's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Dalton's 89% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dalton's 51st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dalton, see the exposure-zones guide.