Salt Lick, KY
Salt Lick, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Salt Lick's 269 buildings earn a 49th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Salt Lick's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 52nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Salt Lick's buildings (53.5%) 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.
Salt Lick against the rest of the country
Compare Salt Lick's two percentiles: 77th within Kentucky, only 49th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salt Lick ranks 16,098 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,533 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 127 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Salt Lick and the insurance market
Salt Lick's elevated rating (49th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Salt Lick
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Salt Lick (53.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Salt Lick's 49th-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 Salt Lick, see the exposure-zones guide.