Ord, NE
How exposed is Ord to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ord at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,520 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ord at the 73rd national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Ord's buildings actually sit
1,520 buildings are counted in Ord, and 92.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 7.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Ord against the rest of the country
Ord scores 80th nationally and 86th 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, Ord ranks 6,243 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,083 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 82 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ord
At the 80th percentile nationally, Ord carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Ord's 92.6% 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
Ord's 80th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ord, see the exposure-zones guide.