Whitesville, KY
How exposed is Whitesville to wildfire?
Whitesville's 440 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Whitesville at the 26th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Where Whitesville's buildings actually sit
Of Whitesville's 440 counted buildings, 70.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Whitesville ranks
Within Kentucky, Whitesville ranks higher (45th 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, Whitesville ranks 23,947 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,456 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 305 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Whitesville
At the 24th national percentile, Whitesville 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 Whitesville
Whitesville's 70.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Whitesville'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 direct exposure implies beyond Whitesville, see the exposure-zones guide.