Ponca, NE
How exposed is Ponca to wildfire?
Ponca's 587 buildings earn a 85th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ponca's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 81st percentile nationally.
Ponca's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 77.2% of Ponca's 587 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 22.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Ponca against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Ponca's 85th national percentile and its 93rd percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ponca ranks 4,639 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,004 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 44 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ponca
Ponca's very high rating (85th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Ponca (77.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ponca's 4,639-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ponca, see the exposure-zones guide.