Bancroft, KY
How exposed is Bancroft to wildfire?
Bancroft's 210 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bancroft at the 12th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Where Bancroft's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Bancroft: 50.5% of its 210 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 49.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Bancroft ranks
Bancroft's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (9th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (10th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bancroft ranks 28,267 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,480 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 499 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bancroft
Bancroft's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Bancroft
With 50.5% of Bancroft in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Bancroft's 10th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bancroft, see the exposure-zones guide.