Tryon, NE
Tryon, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tryon at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 172 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tryon at the 80th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Tryon's buildings actually sit
172 buildings are counted in Tryon, and 76.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Tryon compares
Tryon scores 81st nationally and 88th 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, Tryon ranks 5,986 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,950 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 71 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Tryon and the insurance market
Tryon's 81st-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 Tryon
Tryon's 76.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 172 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tryon. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tryon, see the exposure-zones guide.