Rolling Hills, KY
How exposed is Rolling Hills to wildfire?
Rolling Hills sits at the 11th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 396 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rolling Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Rolling Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
79% of Rolling Hills's 396 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 21% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Rolling Hills compares
Rolling Hills scores 11th nationally and 11th within Kentucky — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rolling Hills ranks 28,141 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,300 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 488 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Rolling Hills and the insurance market
At the 11th national percentile, Rolling Hills rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 79% of Rolling Hills'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rolling Hills's 28,141-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rolling Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.