Venango, NE
Venango, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Venango lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 194 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 Venango at the 27th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Venango's building exposure, zone by zone
Venango rates 88.7% Minimal exposure against just 11.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 194 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Venango ranks
Venango's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (15th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (30th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Venango ranks 22,188 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,085 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 495 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 30th national percentile, Venango rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Venango
Even with 88.7% of Venango outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 194 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Venango. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Venango, see the exposure-zones guide.