Sutton, NE
Sutton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sutton at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,060 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 Sutton at the 34th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Sutton's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 87.6% of Sutton's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Sutton against the rest of the country
Sutton ranks lower within Nebraska (23rd percentile statewide) than its 39th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sutton ranks 19,101 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,520 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 447 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Sutton and the insurance market
Sutton's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sutton 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 Sutton's 19,101-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sutton, see the exposure-zones guide.