Ithaca, NE
How exposed is Ithaca to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ithaca at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 123 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ithaca at the 41st percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Ithaca rates 62.6% Minimal exposure against just 37.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 123 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Ithaca compares
Inside Nebraska, Ithaca sits at just the 28th percentile even though it scores 43rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ithaca ranks 17,841 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,025 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 421 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Ithaca and the insurance market
At the 43rd national percentile, Ithaca rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Ithaca
With 62.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ithaca gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Ithaca's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ithaca's 17,841-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ithaca's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.