Yankee Hill, NE
Yankee Hill wildfire risk explained
Yankee Hill's 322 buildings earn a 77th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Yankee Hill at the 73rd percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
Yankee Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
322 buildings are counted in Yankee Hill, and 79.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 20.8% rated Minimal.
Where Yankee Hill ranks
There's little gap between Yankee Hill's 77th national percentile and its 80th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yankee Hill ranks 7,411 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,040 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 116 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Yankee Hill and the insurance market
Yankee Hill's 77th-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.
Hardening a home in Yankee Hill
Yankee Hill's 79.2% 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.
Where Yankee Hill's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 322 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Yankee Hill. The exposure-zones guide covers what Yankee Hill's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.