Hiseville, KY
How exposed is Hiseville to wildfire?
Hiseville's 208 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hiseville at the 28th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
208 buildings are counted in Hiseville, and 91.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Hiseville ranks
Within Kentucky, Hiseville ranks higher (49th percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hiseville ranks 23,225 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,553 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 279 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Hiseville and the insurance market
Hiseville's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Hiseville (91.4%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hiseville's 23,225-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hiseville, see the exposure-zones guide.