Nora, NE
Nora wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Nora at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 48 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nora at the 28th national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Nora's buildings actually sit
Only 45.8% of Nora's 48 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 54.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Nora ranks
Inside Nebraska, Nora sits at just the 18th percentile even though it scores 34th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nora ranks 20,766 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,979 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 477 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nora
Nora's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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 Nora
Nora's 54.2% 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.
Where Nora's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nora's 20,766-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Nora's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.