Lakeview Heights, KY
Lakeview Heights wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lakeview Heights lands at the 54th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 111 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lakeview Heights at the 57th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Where Lakeview Heights's buildings actually sit
Most of Lakeview Heights's buildings (55%) 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.
Lakeview Heights against the rest of the country
Compare Lakeview Heights's two percentiles: 80th within Kentucky, only 54th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lakeview Heights ranks 14,585 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,588 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 113 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Lakeview Heights and the insurance market
At the 54th national percentile, Lakeview Heights rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 55% of Lakeview Heights'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 Lakeview Heights's 14,585-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lakeview Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.