Lawrenceburg, KY
Lawrenceburg wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lawrenceburg at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,191 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 Lawrenceburg at the 24th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 67.2% of Lawrenceburg's 5,191 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 5,191 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Lawrenceburg compares
Within Kentucky, Lawrenceburg ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (22nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lawrenceburg ranks 24,645 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,318 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 341 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lawrenceburg
At the 22nd national percentile, Lawrenceburg 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 Lawrenceburg
Because 67.2% of Lawrenceburg'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
Lawrenceburg's 22nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lawrenceburg, see the exposure-zones guide.