Westwood (Boyd), KY
Westwood (Boyd), KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Westwood (Boyd) at the 50th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,908 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Westwood (Boyd)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 53rd percentile nationally.
Westwood (Boyd)'s building exposure, zone by zone
Westwood (Boyd) rates 41% Minimal exposure against just 21.9% Direct and 37.1% Indirect — of 2,908 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Westwood (Boyd) against the rest of the country
Compare Westwood (Boyd)'s two percentiles: 78th within Kentucky, only 50th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westwood (Boyd) ranks 15,753 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,572 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 125 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Westwood (Boyd)
Westwood (Boyd)'s elevated wildfire rating (50th 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.
Hardening a home in Westwood (Boyd)
Westwood (Boyd)'s 41% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Westwood (Boyd)'s 15,753-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Westwood (Boyd), see the exposure-zones guide.