Blandville, KY
Blandville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blandville at the 47th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 72 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blandville at the 48th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Blandville: 98.6% of its 72 buildings, versus 1.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Blandville ranks
Within Kentucky, Blandville ranks higher (75th percentile) than it does nationally (47th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blandville ranks 16,857 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,205 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 137 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Blandville and the insurance market
Blandville's elevated rating (47th 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 Blandville
With 98.6% of Blandville 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 Blandville's 16,857-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blandville, see the exposure-zones guide.