Randolph, NE
Randolph, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Randolph's 649 buildings earn a 47th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Randolph at the 38th national percentile — 8 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 10.8% of Randolph's 649 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.
Randolph against the rest of the country
Randolph scores 47th nationally and 32nd 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, Randolph ranks 16,833 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,211 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 398 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Randolph
At the 47th national percentile, Randolph 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
Randolph'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Randolph's 16,833-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Randolph, see the exposure-zones guide.