La Grange, KY
La Grange wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Grange at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,450 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts La Grange at the 25th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
La Grange's building exposure, zone by zone
3,450 buildings are counted in La Grange, and 59.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 40.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where La Grange ranks
Compare La Grange's two percentiles: 43rd within Kentucky, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Grange ranks 24,141 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,844 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 316 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Grange
At the 23rd national percentile, La Grange rates moderate 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 Grange
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in La Grange (59.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,450 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for La Grange. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond La Grange, see the exposure-zones guide.