La Vista, NE
La Vista wildfire risk explained
La Vista's 5,276 buildings earn a 59th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts La Vista at the 61st percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
La Vista rates 97.9% Minimal exposure against just 2.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 5,276 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,276 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where La Vista ranks
La Vista's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (59th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Vista ranks 12,896 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,270 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 299 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
La Vista and the insurance market
At the 59th national percentile, La Vista rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 97.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, La Vista 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 5,276 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for La Vista. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond La Vista, see the exposure-zones guide.