Cave City, KY
Cave City wildfire risk explained
Cave City's 1,455 buildings earn a 29th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cave City at the 31st percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Where Cave City's buildings actually sit
51.8% of Cave City's 1,455 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 48.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Cave City compares
Compare Cave City's two percentiles: 55th within Kentucky, only 29th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cave City ranks 22,373 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,373 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 246 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cave City
Cave City's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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 Cave City
Cave City's 51.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,455 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cave City. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cave City, see the exposure-zones guide.