Lorton, NE
Lorton wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lorton at the 41st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 37 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lorton at the 38th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lorton's building exposure, zone by zone
83.8% of Lorton's 37 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 16.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Lorton compares
Lorton's 41st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 24th ranking inside Nebraska does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lorton ranks 18,657 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,240 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 442 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
At the 41st national percentile, Lorton rates elevated 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 Lorton
With 83.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lorton 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lorton's 18,657-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lorton, see the exposure-zones guide.