Johnstown, NE
How exposed is Johnstown to wildfire?
Johnstown sits at the 75th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 127 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Johnstown at the 72nd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Johnstown's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Johnstown's 127 counted buildings, 74% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Johnstown ranks
There's little gap between Johnstown's 75th national percentile and its 78th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Johnstown ranks 7,851 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,861 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 129 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Johnstown and the insurance market
Johnstown's 75th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 74% of Johnstown 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.
Where Johnstown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Johnstown's 7,851-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Johnstown's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.