Lexington, NE
Lexington, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lexington lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 4,507 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lexington at the 18th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lexington's building exposure, zone by zone
Lexington rates 97.1% Minimal exposure against just 1.9% Direct and 1% Indirect — of 4,507 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Lexington compares
There's little gap between Lexington's 22nd national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lexington ranks 24,522 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,789 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 521 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lexington
At the 22nd national percentile, Lexington rates moderate 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 Lexington
Lexington's 97.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lexington's 24,522-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lexington, see the exposure-zones guide.