Caneyville, KY
How exposed is Caneyville to wildfire?
Caneyville sits at the 34th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 490 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Caneyville at the 37th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Caneyville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 83.3% of Caneyville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 16.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 408 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Caneyville against the rest of the country
Compare Caneyville's two percentiles: 63rd within Kentucky, only 34th nationally — a gap of 29 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Caneyville ranks 20,890 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,531 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 205 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Caneyville and the insurance market
Caneyville's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Hardening a home in Caneyville
Caneyville's 83.3% 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 490 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Caneyville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Caneyville, see the exposure-zones guide.