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Maryhill Estates, KY

Maryhill Estates wildfire risk explained

Low
11thpercentile nationally

USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Maryhill Estates at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 67 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Separately from the risk score above, Maryhill Estates's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.

Where Maryhill Estates's buildings actually sit

67Total buildings
34.3%Direct exposure
0%Indirect exposure
65.7%Minimal exposure

USFS classifies 65.7% of Maryhill Estates's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 34.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.

Where Maryhill Estates ranks

There's little gap between Maryhill Estates's 11th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maryhill Estates ranks 27,924 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,385 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 469 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Maryhill Estates

Maryhill Estates's low wildfire rating (11th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.

Hardening a home in Maryhill Estates

Even with 65.7% of Maryhill Estates outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.

Where Maryhill Estates's figures come from

Every one of the two percentiles behind Maryhill Estates's 27,924-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Maryhill Estates's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.