Danville, KY
How exposed is Danville to wildfire?
USFS scores Danville at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,833 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 Danville at the 40th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Where Danville's buildings actually sit
50.7% of Danville's 7,833 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 3,973 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 19.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 30.2% are Minimal. At 7,833 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Danville compares
Danville's 65th-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 37th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Danville ranks 19,726 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,168 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 192 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Danville
Danville's moderate rating (37th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Danville's 50.7% 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.
Where Danville's figures come from
Danville's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Danville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.