Edgewood, KY
Edgewood, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Edgewood at the 11th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 3,467 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Edgewood at the 12th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Edgewood's buildings actually sit
3,467 buildings are counted in Edgewood, and 48.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 5.7% rated Minimal.
How Edgewood compares
Edgewood scores 11th nationally and 15th within Kentucky — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edgewood ranks 27,923 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,817 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 468 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 11th national percentile, Edgewood rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Edgewood (48.5%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Edgewood's 27,923-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Edgewood, see the exposure-zones guide.