West Point, KY
West Point wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Point at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 599 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts West Point at the 28th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Where West Point's buildings actually sit
54.9% of West Point's 599 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 43.2% Direct and 1.8% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How West Point compares
West Point's 50th-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 27th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Point ranks 23,100 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,851 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 276 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
West Point and the insurance market
West Point's moderate rating (27th 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 West Point
West Point's 54.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Point's 23,100-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond West Point, see the exposure-zones guide.