Salyersville, KY
Salyersville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Salyersville at the 89th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,055 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Salyersville at the 92nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Salyersville's building exposure, zone by zone
1,055 buildings are counted in Salyersville, and 50.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Salyersville ranks
There's little gap between Salyersville's 89th national percentile and its 89th percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salyersville ranks 3,433 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,567 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 61 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Salyersville's very high rating (89th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Salyersville
Salyersville's 50.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Salyersville's 89th-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 Salyersville, see the exposure-zones guide.