Omaha, NE
How exposed is Omaha to wildfire?
Omaha sits at the 70th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 173,511 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Omaha at the 68th national percentile — 3 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
USFS classifies 94% of Omaha's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.9% Direct and 2.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 173,511 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Omaha against the rest of the country
Omaha scores 70th nationally and 70th within Nebraska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Omaha ranks 9,365 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 32 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 178 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Omaha
Omaha's high rating (70th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Omaha
Omaha's 94% 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
Omaha's 70th-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 Omaha, see the exposure-zones guide.