Brandenburg, KY
Brandenburg wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brandenburg at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,390 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brandenburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 27th percentile nationally.
Where Brandenburg's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Brandenburg: 68.7% of its 1,390 buildings, versus 31.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Brandenburg against the rest of the country
Brandenburg's 47th-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 25th 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, Brandenburg ranks 23,664 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,672 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 293 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Brandenburg and the insurance market
Brandenburg's moderate wildfire rating (25th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Brandenburg's 68.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,390 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brandenburg. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brandenburg, see the exposure-zones guide.