Gilead, NE
How exposed is Gilead to wildfire?
USFS scores Gilead at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 59 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 Gilead at the 60th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Gilead's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 10.2% of Gilead's 59 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Gilead compares
There's little gap between Gilead's 69th national percentile and its 67th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gilead ranks 9,776 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,685 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 196 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gilead
Gilead's high rating (69th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 89.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gilead gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Gilead's 69th-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 Gilead, see the exposure-zones guide.