Willisburg, KY
Willisburg wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Willisburg lands at the 35th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 250 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Willisburg at the 37th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Where Willisburg's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Willisburg: 98.4% of its 250 buildings, versus 1.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Willisburg ranks
Willisburg's 64th-percentile standing inside Kentucky outpaces its 35th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Willisburg ranks 20,484 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,143 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 202 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Willisburg's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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 Willisburg
Willisburg's 98.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 250 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Willisburg. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Willisburg, see the exposure-zones guide.