Belmont, LA
Belmont, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Belmont sits at the 63rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 266 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Belmont at the 63rd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Belmont's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Belmont's 266 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 266 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Belmont ranks
Compare Belmont's two percentiles: 79th within Louisiana, only 63rd nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belmont ranks 11,663 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,632 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 101 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Belmont
Belmont's high rating (63rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Belmont 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Belmont's 11,663-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Belmont, see the exposure-zones guide.