Gross, NE
Gross, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Gross at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 6 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gross's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 65th percentile nationally.
Where Gross's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 100% of Gross's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 6 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. This is a small settlement by building count — 6 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Gross compares
Gross's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (68th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (70th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gross ranks 9,587 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,517 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 189 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Gross and the insurance market
Gross's 70th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Gross (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Gross's 70th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. At 6 buildings, Gross is close to the size where USFS's data gets thin — the data-quality guide explains why 517 places nationally get no score at all.