Amite City, LA
How exposed is Amite City to wildfire?
USFS scores Amite City at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,900 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Amite City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,900 buildings are counted in Amite City, and 54.8% 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% rated Minimal.
How Amite City compares
There's little gap between Amite City's 73rd national percentile and its 87th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Amite City ranks 8,606 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,764 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 65 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Amite City
At the 73rd percentile nationally, Amite City carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 54.8% of Amite City 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
Amite City's 73rd-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 Amite City, see the exposure-zones guide.