Yutan, NE
Yutan wildfire risk explained
Yutan sits at the 66th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 647 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Yutan at the 60th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
60.7% of Yutan's 647 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 12.1% Direct and 27.2% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Yutan against the rest of the country
Yutan's risk sits at a similar level relative to Nebraska (61st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (66th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yutan ranks 10,688 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,233 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 231 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Yutan
Yutan'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 60.7% of Yutan's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Yutan's 66th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Yutan, see the exposure-zones guide.