Walton, NE
How exposed is Walton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Walton at the 72nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 311 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Walton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Walton: 76.2% of its 311 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 23.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Walton compares
Walton scores 72nd nationally and 73rd 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, Walton ranks 8,699 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,344 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 156 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
Walton's 72nd-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 76.2% of Walton in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Walton's 8,699-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Walton, see the exposure-zones guide.