Bardstown, KY
How exposed is Bardstown to wildfire?
Bardstown sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,354 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bardstown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
Where Bardstown's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Bardstown (53.1% of 6,354 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 41.3% sit in the Direct zone. At 6,354 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Bardstown compares
Within Kentucky, Bardstown ranks higher (46th percentile) than it does nationally (24th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bardstown ranks 23,826 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,725 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 299 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bardstown
At the 24th national percentile, Bardstown rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 53.1% of Bardstown'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,354 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bardstown. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bardstown, see the exposure-zones guide.