Lebanon, KY
Lebanon wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lebanon at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,349 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lebanon at the 28th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lebanon's building exposure, zone by zone
3,349 buildings are counted in Lebanon, and 55.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 44.5% in Direct exposure or the 0.2% rated Minimal.
How Lebanon compares
Compare Lebanon's two percentiles: 48th within Kentucky, only 25th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lebanon ranks 23,509 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,983 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 289 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Lebanon and the insurance market
Lebanon's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Lebanon
Lebanon's 55.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,349 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lebanon. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lebanon, see the exposure-zones guide.