Weeping Water, NE
Weeping Water wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Weeping Water lands at the 66th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 617 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Weeping Water's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 78% of Weeping Water's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 22% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Weeping Water compares
Weeping Water scores 66th nationally and 60th 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, Weeping Water ranks 10,756 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,608 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 234 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
Weeping Water's 66th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Weeping Water's 78% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Weeping Water's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Weeping Water's 10,756-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Weeping Water's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.