Fort Knox, KY
Fort Knox wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fort Knox at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,219 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fort Knox at the 29th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
57.5% of Fort Knox's 2,219 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 37.6% Direct and 4.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Fort Knox ranks
Fort Knox's 53rd-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 28th 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, Fort Knox ranks 22,811 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,882 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 263 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fort Knox
Fort Knox's moderate wildfire rating (28th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 57.5% of Fort Knox'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
Fort Knox's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Knox, see the exposure-zones guide.