Pioneer Village, KY
How exposed is Pioneer Village to wildfire?
USFS scores Pioneer Village at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,330 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pioneer Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Pioneer Village's buildings (78.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Pioneer Village compares
Pioneer Village's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (27th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pioneer Village ranks 26,439 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,928 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 407 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Pioneer Village and the insurance market
At the 16th national percentile, Pioneer Village 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 Pioneer Village
Because 78.3% of Pioneer Village'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 1,330 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pioneer Village. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pioneer Village, see the exposure-zones guide.