Kenesaw, NE
Kenesaw wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kenesaw at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 575 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 Kenesaw at the 7th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 92.4% of Kenesaw's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Kenesaw against the rest of the country
Kenesaw scores 9th nationally and 5th within Nebraska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kenesaw ranks 28,594 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,174 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 556 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Kenesaw and the insurance market
At the 9th national percentile, Kenesaw rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 92.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kenesaw 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
Kenesaw's 9th-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 Kenesaw, see the exposure-zones guide.