South Wallins, KY
How exposed is South Wallins to wildfire?
South Wallins's 664 buildings earn a 91st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, South Wallins's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
South Wallins's building exposure, zone by zone
664 buildings are counted in South Wallins, and 80.3% 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 South Wallins ranks
South Wallins's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (92nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (91st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Wallins ranks 2,992 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,015 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 45 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in South Wallins
South Wallins's 91st-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in South Wallins
With 80.3% of South Wallins in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
South Wallins's 91st-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 South Wallins, see the exposure-zones guide.