WildfireRiskFinder

Crestview Hills, KY

Crestview Hills, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Low
10thpercentile nationally

USFS scores Crestview Hills at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 863 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Separately from the risk score above, Crestview Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.

What "at risk" means for the buildings here

863Total buildings
26.8%Direct exposure
44%Indirect exposure
29.2%Minimal exposure

USFS puts 44% of Crestview Hills's 863 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 26.8% Direct and 29.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.

Crestview Hills against the rest of the country

Crestview Hills's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (10th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crestview Hills ranks 28,364 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,047 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 514 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Crestview Hills

Crestview Hills's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.

Hardening a home in Crestview Hills

Because 44% of Crestview Hills's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 863 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crestview Hills. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Crestview Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.