Angie, LA
Angie, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Angie at the 88th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 199 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Angie at the 90th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Angie's building exposure, zone by zone
66.8% of Angie's 199 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 133 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 33.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Angie compares
Angie's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (88th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Angie ranks 3,934 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,885 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 14 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Angie
Angie's 88th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Angie
With 66.8% of Angie 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 199 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Angie. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Angie, see the exposure-zones guide.