Belleview, KY
How exposed is Belleview to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Belleview at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 240 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 Belleview at the 22nd percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
240 buildings are counted in Belleview, and 75% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.7% rated Minimal.
How Belleview compares
Belleview scores 20th nationally and 35th within Kentucky — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belleview ranks 25,114 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,461 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 361 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Belleview
At the 20th national percentile, Belleview 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
With 75% of Belleview 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Belleview's 25,114-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Belleview, see the exposure-zones guide.