Brownsboro Village, KY
Brownsboro Village wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Brownsboro Village at the 13th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 233 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brownsboro Village at the 15th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
Where Brownsboro Village's buildings actually sit
Most of Brownsboro Village's buildings (59.7% of 233) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Brownsboro Village against the rest of the country
Brownsboro Village scores 13th nationally and 20th 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, Brownsboro Village ranks 27,507 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,701 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 443 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Brownsboro Village and the insurance market
At the 13th national percentile, Brownsboro Village rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Brownsboro Village's 59.7% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brownsboro Village's 27,507-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brownsboro Village, see the exposure-zones guide.