Pippa Passes, KY
Pippa Passes, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pippa Passes at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 59 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pippa Passes's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 95th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
94.9% of Pippa Passes's 59 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 56 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 5.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Pippa Passes ranks
There's little gap between Pippa Passes's 93rd national percentile and its 97th percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pippa Passes ranks 2,208 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,678 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 20 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pippa Passes
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Pippa Passes carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.9% of Pippa Passes in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pippa Passes's 2,208-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pippa Passes, see the exposure-zones guide.