Superior, NE
Superior wildfire risk explained
Superior's 1,574 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Superior at the 24th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Superior's buildings (90.9% of 1,574) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Superior against the rest of the country
Superior scores 27th nationally and 14th 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, Superior ranks 22,941 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,867 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 503 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Superior and the insurance market
Superior's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Superior's 90.9% 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.
Where Superior's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,574 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Superior. The exposure-zones guide covers what Superior's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.