Poplar Hills, KY
Poplar Hills wildfire risk explained
Poplar Hills's 21 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Poplar Hills at the 10th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Poplar Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Poplar Hills's buildings (100% of 21) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. This is a small settlement by building count — 21 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Poplar Hills against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Poplar Hills's 8th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Poplar Hills ranks 29,057 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,452 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 538 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Poplar Hills
Poplar Hills's low wildfire rating (8th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Poplar Hills
With 100% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Poplar Hills gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Poplar Hills's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 21 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Poplar Hills. Small places like Poplar Hills (21 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.