Crescent Springs, KY
Crescent Springs wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Crescent Springs at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,188 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 Crescent Springs at the 10th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Where Crescent Springs's buildings actually sit
70.1% of Crescent Springs's 1,188 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 29.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Crescent Springs ranks
Crescent Springs's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (3rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crescent Springs ranks 28,586 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,718 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 533 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 9th national percentile, Crescent Springs rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Crescent Springs (70.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crescent Springs's 28,586-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Crescent Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.