Evarts, KY
How exposed is Evarts to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Evarts lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 414 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Evarts at the 93rd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
67.2% of Evarts's 414 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 32.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Evarts ranks
There's little gap between Evarts's 91st national percentile and its 93rd percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Evarts ranks 2,927 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,945 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 41 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Evarts
Evarts's very high rating (91st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 67.2% of Evarts'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Evarts's 2,927-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Evarts, see the exposure-zones guide.