Southgate, KY
How exposed is Southgate to wildfire?
Southgate's 1,005 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 Southgate at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 29% of Southgate's 1,005 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 71% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Southgate against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Southgate's 12th national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Southgate ranks 27,764 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,896 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 457 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Southgate and the insurance market
Southgate'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.
Hardening a home in Southgate
With 71% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Southgate gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Southgate's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Southgate's 27,764-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Southgate's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.