Tecumseh, NE
How exposed is Tecumseh to wildfire?
USFS scores Tecumseh at the 82nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,054 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Tecumseh's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,054 buildings are counted in Tecumseh, and 57.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 12.9% in Direct exposure or the 29.8% rated Minimal.
How Tecumseh compares
Tecumseh scores 82nd nationally and 89th 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, Tecumseh ranks 5,800 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,573 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 65 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tecumseh
Tecumseh's 82nd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Tecumseh (57.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Tecumseh's 82nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Tecumseh, see the exposure-zones guide.