West Buechel, KY
West Buechel, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
West Buechel's 366 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Buechel at the 10th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
West Buechel's building exposure, zone by zone
West Buechel rates 89.9% Minimal exposure against just 10.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 366 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where West Buechel ranks
West Buechel's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (3rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Buechel ranks 28,967 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,942 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 537 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Buechel
West Buechel's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 89.9% of West Buechel outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
West Buechel's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Buechel, see the exposure-zones guide.