Moorefield, NE
Moorefield wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Moorefield at the 50th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 70 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Moorefield at the 48th percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Where Moorefield's buildings actually sit
70 buildings are counted in Moorefield, and 82.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 17.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Moorefield ranks
There's little gap between Moorefield's 50th national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moorefield ranks 15,790 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,287 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 368 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Moorefield and the insurance market
At the 50th national percentile, Moorefield 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 Moorefield
Moorefield's 82.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Moorefield's 15,790-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Moorefield, see the exposure-zones guide.