Ragan, NE
Ragan, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Ragan sits at the 25th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 66 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ragan at the 22nd percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Where Ragan's buildings actually sit
Ragan rates 56.1% Minimal exposure against just 43.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 66 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Ragan against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Ragan's 25th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ragan ranks 23,545 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,438 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 508 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ragan
Ragan's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 56.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ragan 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ragan's 23,545-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ragan, see the exposure-zones guide.