Wymore, NE
Wymore, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wymore lands at the 67th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,179 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 Wymore at the 60th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Wymore's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 14% of Wymore's 1,179 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Wymore compares
Wymore's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (63rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (67th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wymore ranks 10,375 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,775 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 216 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Wymore and the insurance market
At the 67th percentile nationally, Wymore carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 86% of Wymore 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wymore's 10,375-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wymore, see the exposure-zones guide.