Mockingbird Valley, KY
Mockingbird Valley, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mockingbird Valley at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 99 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mockingbird Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.
Mockingbird Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Mockingbird Valley's 99 counted buildings, 85.9% carry Direct exposure and only 14.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Mockingbird Valley ranks
Mockingbird Valley's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (18th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (12th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mockingbird Valley ranks 27,637 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 449 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mockingbird Valley
Mockingbird Valley's low rating (12th 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 Mockingbird Valley
Mockingbird Valley's 85.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mockingbird Valley's 27,637-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mockingbird Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.