Daykin, NE
Daykin wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Daykin at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 166 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Daykin at the 23rd national percentile — 11 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Daykin's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 5.4% of Daykin's 166 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Daykin against the rest of the country
Inside Nebraska, Daykin sits at just the 18th percentile even though it scores 33rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Daykin ranks 21,052 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,181 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 479 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Daykin and the insurance market
Daykin's moderate rating (33rd 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
With 94.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Daykin gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Daykin's figures come from
Daykin's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Daykin's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.