La Center, KY
How exposed is La Center to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Center at the 17th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 651 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, La Center's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 29.3% of La Center's 651 buildings carry Direct exposure and 11.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 59.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where La Center ranks
La Center scores 17th nationally and 28th 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, La Center ranks 26,184 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,195 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 400 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
La Center and the insurance market
At the 17th national percentile, La Center rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in La Center
Even with 59.5% of La Center outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Center's 26,184-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond La Center, see the exposure-zones guide.