Eustis, NE
How exposed is Eustis to wildfire?
Eustis's 374 buildings earn a 64th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eustis at the 61st percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Where Eustis's buildings actually sit
94.4% of Eustis's 374 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 5.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Eustis against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Eustis's 64th national percentile and its 56th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eustis ranks 11,478 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,784 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 258 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Eustis
Eustis's 64th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Eustis
Because 94.4% of Eustis's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Eustis's figures come from
Eustis's 64th-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 Eustis's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.