Pikeville, KY
Pikeville, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pikeville's 2,746 buildings earn a 93rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pikeville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 96th percentile nationally.
Where Pikeville's buildings actually sit
2,746 buildings are counted in Pikeville, and 51.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 48.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Pikeville ranks
Pikeville scores 93rd nationally and 98th within Kentucky — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pikeville ranks 2,079 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,854 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 12 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
Pikeville's 93rd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Pikeville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pikeville (51.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pikeville's 2,079-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pikeville, see the exposure-zones guide.