Minatare, NE
How exposed is Minatare to wildfire?
USFS scores Minatare at the 55th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 528 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Minatare at the 54th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Minatare's buildings (57%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Minatare ranks
Minatare's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (42nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (55th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Minatare ranks 14,219 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,896 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 338 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Minatare and the insurance market
Minatare's elevated wildfire rating (55th 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.
Hardening a home in Minatare
Because 57% of Minatare's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Minatare's figures come from
Minatare's 55th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Minatare's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.