Du Bois, NE
Du Bois, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Du Bois at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 156 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Du Bois at the 76th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Where Du Bois's buildings actually sit
Only 23.7% of Du Bois's 156 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 73.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Du Bois ranks
There's little gap between Du Bois's 78th national percentile and its 83rd percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Du Bois ranks 6,903 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,625 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 99 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Du Bois and the insurance market
At the 78th percentile nationally, Du Bois 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 73.7% of Du Bois 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
Du Bois's 78th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Du Bois, see the exposure-zones guide.