Douglas, NE
Douglas, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Douglas's 160 buildings earn a 61st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Douglas at the 55th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Douglas's buildings actually sit
Only 35% of Douglas's 160 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 65% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Douglas compares
Douglas's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (53rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (61st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Douglas ranks 12,329 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,438 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 277 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Douglas
At the 61st percentile nationally, Douglas carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 65% of Douglas outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Douglas's 12,329-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Douglas, see the exposure-zones guide.