Salvisa, KY
Salvisa wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Salvisa at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 430 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Salvisa at the 28th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Salvisa's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Salvisa: 93.3% of its 430 buildings, versus 6.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Salvisa against the rest of the country
Within Kentucky, Salvisa 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, Salvisa ranks 23,417 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,646 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 285 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Salvisa
Salvisa's moderate wildfire rating (26th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Salvisa
Because Direct exposure dominates in Salvisa (93.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Salvisa's 26th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Salvisa, see the exposure-zones guide.