Fordsville, KY
Fordsville, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fordsville's 357 buildings earn a 33rd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fordsville at the 35th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
357 buildings are counted in Fordsville, and 69.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Fordsville compares
Within Kentucky, Fordsville ranks higher (60th percentile) than it does nationally (33rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fordsville ranks 21,202 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,128 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 219 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
Fordsville's moderate rating (33rd 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
Fordsville's 69.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fordsville's 21,202-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fordsville, see the exposure-zones guide.