Plainview, NE
Plainview wildfire risk explained
Plainview's 896 buildings earn a 67th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Plainview at the 55th percentile, lower than its 67th-percentile risk score, because so much is actually built here.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Plainview rates 87.4% Minimal exposure against just 12.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 896 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Plainview against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Plainview's 67th national percentile and its 64th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plainview ranks 10,341 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,761 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 213 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Plainview's 67th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Plainview
With 87.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Plainview gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Plainview's 67th-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 Plainview, see the exposure-zones guide.