Springfield, KY
How exposed is Springfield to wildfire?
Springfield's 1,652 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Springfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Where Springfield's buildings actually sit
1,652 buildings are counted in Springfield, and 54.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 45.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Springfield compares
Compare Springfield's two percentiles: 53rd within Kentucky, only 28th nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Springfield ranks 22,718 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,589 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 259 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
At the 28th national percentile, Springfield rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Springfield's 54.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Springfield's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Springfield, see the exposure-zones guide.