Rising City, NE
Rising City wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rising City at the 3rd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 303 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rising City at the 2nd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 8.9% of Rising City's 303 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Rising City ranks
Rising City scores 3rd nationally and 0th 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, Rising City ranks 30,457 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,544 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 582 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Rising City and the insurance market
Rising City's low wildfire rating (3rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Rising City gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Rising City's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 303 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rising City. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rising City's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.