De Witt, NE
De Witt wildfire risk explained
De Witt's 386 buildings earn a 45th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks De Witt at the 40th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where De Witt's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 94.8% of De Witt's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How De Witt compares
De Witt's 45th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 29th ranking inside Nebraska does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, De Witt ranks 17,398 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,495 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 411 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
De Witt's elevated wildfire rating (45th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, De Witt gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 386 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for De Witt. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond De Witt, see the exposure-zones guide.