Kentucky

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$355.6B

Total Economic Impact

120

Counties

41.5

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 120 counties

Strong Wind

69.26 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

63.88 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

57.82 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

56.94 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

53.79 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

52.68 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

52.59 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

50.1 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 49 events

$120.9B

winter-storm 6 events

$30.2B

drought 4 events

$16.0B

tropical-cyclone 3 events

$175.5B

flooding 3 events

$9.9B

freeze 2 events

$3.0B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Jefferson	95.96	Relatively High	62.2%
2	McCracken	89.72	Relatively Moderate	55.2%
3	Fayette	88.29	Relatively Moderate	55.4%
4	Christian	84.31	Relatively Moderate	94.7%
5	Graves	83.77	Relatively Moderate	55.1%
6	Daviess	83.23	Relatively Moderate	61.1%
7	Warren	83.01	Relatively Moderate	77.3%
8	Calloway	76.04	Relatively Low	54.8%
9	Hopkins	75.41	Relatively Low	63.4%
10	Boone	75.15	Relatively Low	11.8%