Wilder, KY
Wilder, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wilder's 1,062 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wilder at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Wilder's buildings actually sit
Most of Wilder's buildings (56.2% of 1,062) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Wilder ranks
Wilder's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (18th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (12th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilder ranks 27,640 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,506 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 452 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Wilder and the insurance market
At the 12th national percentile, Wilder rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 56.2% of Wilder 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wilder's 27,640-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wilder, see the exposure-zones guide.