Bayou Cane, LA
How exposed is Bayou Cane to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bayou Cane at the 37th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 7,373 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bayou Cane at the 25th national percentile — 11 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
7,373 buildings are counted in Bayou Cane, and 75.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 5.1% in Direct exposure or the 19.1% rated Minimal. At 7,373 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Bayou Cane ranks
Bayou Cane scores 37th nationally and 35th 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, Bayou Cane ranks 19,976 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,314 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 319 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bayou Cane
Bayou Cane's moderate wildfire rating (37th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Bayou Cane
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Bayou Cane (75.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Bayou Cane's 37th-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 Bayou Cane, see the exposure-zones guide.