Belle Rose, LA
How exposed is Belle Rose to wildfire?
USFS scores Belle Rose at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,115 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Belle Rose at the 4th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Belle Rose's buildings actually sit
Belle Rose rates 57.2% Minimal exposure against just 12.5% Direct and 30.3% Indirect — of 1,115 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Belle Rose ranks
There's little gap between Belle Rose's 4th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belle Rose ranks 30,200 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,186 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 486 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Belle Rose and the insurance market
Belle Rose's low rating (4th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Belle Rose's 57.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Belle Rose's 30,200-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Belle Rose, see the exposure-zones guide.