Palmer, NE
Palmer wildfire risk explained
Palmer's 378 buildings earn a 56th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Palmer's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 50th percentile nationally.
Palmer's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 10.9% of Palmer's 378 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Palmer compares
Palmer's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (44th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (56th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Palmer ranks 13,907 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,694 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 330 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Palmer
At the 56th national percentile, Palmer rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Palmer's 89.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 378 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Palmer. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Palmer, see the exposure-zones guide.