Edison, NE
How exposed is Edison to wildfire?
USFS scores Edison at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 172 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Edison's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Where Edison's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 95.9% of Edison's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Edison ranks
Edison's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (17th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (32nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edison ranks 21,429 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,949 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 484 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
Edison's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 95.9% of Edison 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
Edison's 32nd-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 Edison, see the exposure-zones guide.