Avondale, LA
How exposed is Avondale to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Avondale at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,334 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Avondale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
Where Avondale's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 82.7% of Avondale's 2,334 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 4.8% Direct and 12.5% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Avondale compares
Avondale scores 38th nationally and 36th within Louisiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Avondale ranks 19,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,636 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 314 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Avondale and the insurance market
Avondale's moderate rating (38th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 82.7% of Avondale's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Avondale's 38th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Avondale, see the exposure-zones guide.