Offutt AFB, NE
How exposed is Offutt AFB to wildfire?
USFS scores Offutt AFB at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,371 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Offutt AFB at the 54th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Offutt AFB's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 97.5% of Offutt AFB's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Offutt AFB ranks
There's little gap between Offutt AFB's 53rd national percentile and its 40th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Offutt AFB ranks 14,720 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,745 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 350 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Offutt AFB
Offutt AFB's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Offutt AFB's 97.5% 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
Offutt AFB's 53rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Offutt AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.