Schuyler, NE
Schuyler wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Schuyler at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,285 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 Schuyler at the 32nd percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
Schuyler's building exposure, zone by zone
95.3% of Schuyler's 2,285 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Schuyler compares
Inside Nebraska, Schuyler sits at just the 26th percentile even though it scores 42nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Schuyler ranks 18,221 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,735 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 431 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Schuyler and the insurance market
At the 42nd national percentile, Schuyler rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 95.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Schuyler 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 Schuyler's 18,221-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Schuyler, see the exposure-zones guide.