Island, KY
Island wildfire risk explained
Island's 329 buildings earn a 33rd-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 Island at the 34th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Island's buildings (57.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Island compares
Within Kentucky, Island ranks higher (61st percentile) than it does nationally (33rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Island ranks 21,175 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,849 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 218 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Island and the insurance market
Island's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 57.8% of Island'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 Island's 21,175-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Island, see the exposure-zones guide.