Briarwood, KY
Briarwood, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Briarwood lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 167 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Briarwood at the 12th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Where Briarwood's buildings actually sit
Only 45.5% of Briarwood's 167 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 54.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Briarwood compares
Briarwood'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, Briarwood ranks 28,269 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,134 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 501 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Briarwood
Briarwood's low wildfire rating (10th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Briarwood's 54.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 167 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Briarwood. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Briarwood, see the exposure-zones guide.