Syracuse, NE
Syracuse, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Syracuse lands at the 59th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,097 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 Syracuse at the 55th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
Syracuse's building exposure, zone by zone
Syracuse rates 94.1% Minimal exposure against just 5.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,097 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Syracuse compares
There's little gap between Syracuse's 59th national percentile and its 48th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Syracuse ranks 12,986 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,299 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 305 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Syracuse and the insurance market
At the 59th national percentile, Syracuse rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Syracuse 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,097 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Syracuse. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Syracuse, see the exposure-zones guide.