Lewisport, KY
How exposed is Lewisport to wildfire?
Lewisport's 969 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lewisport at the 15th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
61.7% of Lewisport's 969 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 25.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Lewisport against the rest of the country
Lewisport's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lewisport ranks 27,131 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,160 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 430 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Lewisport and the insurance market
At the 14th national percentile, Lewisport rates low 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 Lewisport
Lewisport's 61.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Lewisport's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lewisport, see the exposure-zones guide.