Williamstown, KY
Williamstown, KY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Williamstown's 2,091 buildings earn a 23rd-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 Williamstown at the 25th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Where Williamstown's buildings actually sit
2,091 buildings are counted in Williamstown, and 89.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.6% rated Minimal.
How Williamstown compares
Within Kentucky, Williamstown ranks higher (42nd percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Williamstown ranks 24,265 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,218 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 319 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Williamstown and the insurance market
Williamstown's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 89.2% of Williamstown in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Williamstown's 23rd-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 Williamstown, see the exposure-zones guide.