Fontanelle, NE
Fontanelle, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fontanelle at the 65th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 72 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fontanelle's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 62nd percentile nationally.
Where Fontanelle's buildings actually sit
69.4% of Fontanelle's 72 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 50 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 30.6% are Minimal.
Fontanelle against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Fontanelle's 65th national percentile and its 59th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fontanelle ranks 10,943 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,214 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 241 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
Fontanelle's 65th-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 Fontanelle
With 69.4% of Fontanelle in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fontanelle's 65th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fontanelle, see the exposure-zones guide.