Stanton, NE
Stanton wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Stanton lands at the 83rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 969 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Stanton at the 74th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Stanton's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Stanton's buildings (71.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Stanton ranks
Stanton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (91st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (83rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stanton ranks 5,296 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,162 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 52 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Stanton and the insurance market
Stanton's 83rd-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.
Hardening a home in Stanton
Stanton's 71.9% 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 969 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Stanton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Stanton, see the exposure-zones guide.