Augusta, KY
Augusta, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Augusta at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 765 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Augusta at the 24th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
79.2% of Augusta's 765 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 19.9% Direct and 0.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Augusta compares
Augusta's 41st-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 23rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Augusta ranks 24,356 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,962 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 322 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Augusta and the insurance market
Augusta's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Augusta (79.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 765 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Augusta. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Augusta, see the exposure-zones guide.