Mount Washington, KY
Mount Washington wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Mount Washington at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,165 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 Mount Washington at the 26th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Mount Washington's building exposure, zone by zone
57.7% of Mount Washington's 7,165 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 42.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 7,165 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Mount Washington ranks
Compare Mount Washington's two percentiles: 46th within Kentucky, only 24th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Washington ranks 23,828 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,393 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 301 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Washington
Mount Washington's moderate rating (24th 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 Mount Washington
Because 57.7% of Mount Washington's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,165 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Washington. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mount Washington, see the exposure-zones guide.