Lebanon Junction, KY
Lebanon Junction, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lebanon Junction at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,201 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 Lebanon Junction at the 32nd percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Where Lebanon Junction's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Lebanon Junction: 75.2% of its 1,201 buildings, versus 24.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Lebanon Junction against the rest of the country
Lebanon Junction's 56th-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 30th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lebanon Junction ranks 22,217 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,645 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 242 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Lebanon Junction and the insurance market
At the 30th national percentile, Lebanon Junction rates moderate 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
Lebanon Junction's 75.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lebanon Junction's 22,217-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lebanon Junction, see the exposure-zones guide.