Wickliffe, KY
Wickliffe, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wickliffe's 528 buildings earn a 42nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wickliffe at the 43rd percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Wickliffe: 66.9% of its 528 buildings, versus 33% Indirect and 0.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Wickliffe compares
Compare Wickliffe's two percentiles: 70th within Kentucky, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wickliffe ranks 18,397 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,894 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 166 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wickliffe
Wickliffe's elevated rating (42nd 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wickliffe (66.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Wickliffe's 42nd-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 Wickliffe, see the exposure-zones guide.