Orchard Grass Hills, KY
Orchard Grass Hills, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Orchard Grass Hills lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 555 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Orchard Grass Hills at the 15th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 53.9% of Orchard Grass Hills's 555 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 46.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Orchard Grass Hills ranks
Orchard Grass Hills's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orchard Grass Hills ranks 27,132 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,498 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 431 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 14th national percentile, Orchard Grass Hills rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Orchard Grass Hills
Orchard Grass Hills's 53.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 555 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Orchard Grass Hills. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Orchard Grass Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.