Hickory Hill, KY
How exposed is Hickory Hill to wildfire?
Hickory Hill's 54 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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hickory Hill's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Where Hickory Hill's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Hickory Hill (85.2% of 54 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 14.8% sit in the Direct zone.
How Hickory Hill compares
Hickory Hill scores 11th nationally and 12th within Kentucky — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hickory Hill ranks 28,139 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,815 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 486 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Hickory Hill and the insurance market
At the 11th national percentile, Hickory Hill rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 85.2% of Hickory Hill'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hickory Hill's 28,139-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hickory Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.