Ekron, KY
Ekron, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Ekron's 118 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ekron at the 29th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Ekron's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Ekron: 67.8% of its 118 buildings, versus 32.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Ekron compares
Compare Ekron's two percentiles: 52nd within Kentucky, only 27th nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ekron ranks 22,913 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,245 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 267 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Ekron and the insurance market
At the 27th national percentile, Ekron rates moderate 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Ekron (67.8%), 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 Ekron's 22,913-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ekron, see the exposure-zones guide.