Rockville, NE
Rockville, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rockville lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 117 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rockville at the 76th national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Rockville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 95.7% of Rockville's 117 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 4.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Rockville compares
Rockville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (90th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (82nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rockville ranks 5,612 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,318 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 58 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rockville
Rockville's 82nd-percentile, very 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Rockville's 95.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 117 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rockville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rockville, see the exposure-zones guide.