Radcliff, KY
How exposed is Radcliff to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Radcliff lands at the 26th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 8,837 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Radcliff at the 28th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Radcliff's buildings (49%) 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. At 8,837 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Radcliff against the rest of the country
Within Kentucky, Radcliff ranks higher (49th percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Radcliff ranks 23,253 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,887 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 281 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Radcliff and the insurance market
Radcliff's moderate rating (26th 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
Because 49% of Radcliff'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 8,837 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Radcliff. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Radcliff, see the exposure-zones guide.