Woodlawn, KY
Woodlawn wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Woodlawn lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 106 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 Woodlawn at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Woodlawn's buildings actually sit
77.4% of Woodlawn's 106 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 22.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Woodlawn ranks
There's little gap between Woodlawn's 12th national percentile and its 16th percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodlawn ranks 27,854 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,772 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 465 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Woodlawn and the insurance market
At the 12th national percentile, Woodlawn 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
With 77.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Woodlawn gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Woodlawn's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Woodlawn, see the exposure-zones guide.