Mayking, KY
How exposed is Mayking to wildfire?
USFS scores Mayking at the 90th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 388 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mayking at the 92nd percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 55.4% of Mayking's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 44.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 215 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Mayking compares
Mayking's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (90th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (90th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mayking ranks 3,185 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,444 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 54 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Mayking and the insurance market
At the 90th percentile nationally, Mayking carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Mayking's 55.4% 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
Mayking's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mayking, see the exposure-zones guide.