Verona, KY
How exposed is Verona to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Verona lands at the 24th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,077 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Verona at the 26th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.8% of Verona's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0.1% Indirect share and far above its 0.1% Minimal share — a profile where 1,075 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Verona against the rest of the country
Compare Verona's two percentiles: 44th within Kentucky, only 24th nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Verona ranks 24,047 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,417 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 311 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Verona
At the 24th national percentile, Verona rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Verona
Verona's 99.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Verona's figures come from
Verona's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Verona's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.