Highland Heights, KY
Highland Heights, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Highland Heights lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,718 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Highland Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Highland Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 35.5% of Highland Heights's 1,718 buildings carry Direct exposure and 28.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 35.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Highland Heights ranks
There's little gap between Highland Heights's 13th national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Highland Heights ranks 27,291 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,356 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 434 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Highland Heights
Highland Heights's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Highland Heights
Highland Heights's 35.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Highland Heights's 27,291-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Highland Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.