Pryorsburg, KY
Pryorsburg, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pryorsburg's 230 buildings earn a 35th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pryorsburg at the 36th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Pryorsburg's building exposure, zone by zone
230 buildings are counted in Pryorsburg, and 82.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Pryorsburg compares
Pryorsburg's 64th-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 35th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pryorsburg ranks 20,351 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,795 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 199 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pryorsburg
Pryorsburg's moderate rating (35th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 82.2% of Pryorsburg 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 230 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pryorsburg. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pryorsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.