Coal Run Village, KY
Coal Run Village wildfire risk explained
Coal Run Village sits at the 94th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,151 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 Coal Run Village at the 96th percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Coal Run Village's building exposure, zone by zone
1,151 buildings are counted in Coal Run Village, and 65.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Coal Run Village ranks
Coal Run Village's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (99th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (94th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Coal Run Village ranks 1,918 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,952 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 9 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Coal Run Village
Coal Run Village's 94th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Coal Run Village
Because Direct exposure dominates in Coal Run Village (65.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,151 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Coal Run Village. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Coal Run Village, see the exposure-zones guide.