Meadowview Estates, KY
Meadowview Estates wildfire risk explained
Meadowview Estates sits at the 10th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 61 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Meadowview Estates at the 13th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Meadowview Estates's building exposure, zone by zone
Meadowview Estates rates 67.2% Minimal exposure against just 32.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 61 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Meadowview Estates against the rest of the country
Meadowview Estates's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (10th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Meadowview Estates ranks 28,335 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,620 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 510 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 10th national percentile, Meadowview Estates rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Meadowview Estates's 67.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 61 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Meadowview Estates. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Meadowview Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.