Ravenna, KY
Ravenna wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ravenna at the 64th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 380 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ravenna at the 67th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Ravenna (90.3% of 380 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 9.7% sit in the Direct zone.
Ravenna against the rest of the country
Ravenna's 83rd-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 64th 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, Ravenna ranks 11,436 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,647 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 94 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Ravenna and the insurance market
Ravenna's 64th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Ravenna
Because 90.3% of Ravenna'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
Ravenna's 64th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ravenna, see the exposure-zones guide.