Fredonia, KY
Fredonia, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fredonia at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 333 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fredonia at the 21st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Fredonia's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Fredonia's 333 counted buildings, 62.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Fredonia compares
Fredonia's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (34th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fredonia ranks 25,241 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,733 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 367 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fredonia
At the 20th national percentile, Fredonia rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Fredonia
Fredonia's 62.2% 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 Fredonia's 25,241-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fredonia, see the exposure-zones guide.