Taylorsville, KY
Taylorsville, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Taylorsville sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 488 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Taylorsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Taylorsville (72.8% of 488 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 27.3% sit in the Direct zone.
Taylorsville against the rest of the country
Within Kentucky, Taylorsville ranks higher (44th percentile) than it does nationally (24th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Taylorsville ranks 24,046 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,569 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 310 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Taylorsville
Taylorsville's moderate wildfire rating (24th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72.8% of Taylorsville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Taylorsville's 24th-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 Taylorsville, see the exposure-zones guide.