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Langdon Place, KY

Langdon Place, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Low
10thpercentile nationally

USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Langdon Place at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 318 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 Langdon Place at the 11th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.

Langdon Place's building exposure, zone by zone

318Total buildings
16%Direct exposure
65.4%Indirect exposure
18.6%Minimal exposure

318 buildings are counted in Langdon Place, and 65.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16% in Direct exposure or the 18.6% rated Minimal.

How Langdon Place compares

There's little gap between Langdon Place's 10th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Langdon Place ranks 28,300 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,153 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 505 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.

Langdon Place and the insurance market

At the 10th national percentile, Langdon Place rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

What would actually reduce this score

With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Langdon Place (65.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.

Where Langdon Place's figures come from

Langdon Place's 10th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Langdon Place's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.