Ewing, NE
Ewing wildfire risk explained
Ewing's 347 buildings earn a 68th-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 Ewing at the 65th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Ewing's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 81.8% of Ewing's 347 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Ewing ranks
Ewing's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (65th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (68th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ewing ranks 9,999 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,402 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 203 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Ewing and the insurance market
Ewing's high rating (68th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Ewing's 81.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ewing's 9,999-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ewing, see the exposure-zones guide.