Sorgho, KY
Sorgho wildfire risk explained
Sorgho's 1,059 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sorgho at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Sorgho's buildings actually sit
Only 45.1% of Sorgho's 1,059 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 54.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Sorgho compares
There's little gap between Sorgho's 12th national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sorgho ranks 27,671 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,530 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 454 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Sorgho and the insurance market
Sorgho's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 54.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sorgho gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sorgho's 27,671-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sorgho, see the exposure-zones guide.