Fort Wright, KY
Fort Wright, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Wright's 2,276 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (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 Wright at the 12th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Where Fort Wright's buildings actually sit
Most of Fort Wright's buildings (60.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Fort Wright compares
Fort Wright's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (11th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Wright ranks 28,168 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,758 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 491 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fort Wright
Fort Wright's low wildfire rating (11th 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.
Hardening a home in Fort Wright
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fort Wright (60.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,276 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fort Wright. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Wright, see the exposure-zones guide.