Juniata, NE
Juniata wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Juniata lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 470 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Juniata at the 7th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Juniata's building exposure, zone by zone
Juniata rates 83.2% Minimal exposure against just 16.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 470 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Juniata compares
There's little gap between Juniata's 8th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Juniata ranks 28,912 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,875 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 561 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
Juniata's low wildfire rating (8th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 83.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Juniata 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 470 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Juniata. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Juniata, see the exposure-zones guide.