Hendron, KY
How exposed is Hendron to wildfire?
Hendron's 2,553 buildings earn a 41st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hendron at the 44th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hendron's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Hendron's 2,553 counted buildings, 72.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Hendron ranks
Hendron's 70th-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 41st 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, Hendron ranks 18,463 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,195 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 169 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Hendron and the insurance market
Hendron's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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 Direct exposure dominates in Hendron (72.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Hendron's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hendron, see the exposure-zones guide.