Bogalusa, LA
Bogalusa wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bogalusa lands at the 84th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 6,228 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bogalusa at the 87th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
52.4% of Bogalusa's 6,228 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 47.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 6,228 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Bogalusa ranks
Bogalusa scores 84th nationally and 94th 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, Bogalusa ranks 4,951 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,788 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 29 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Bogalusa and the insurance market
At the 84th percentile nationally, Bogalusa carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 52.4% of Bogalusa'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bogalusa's 4,951-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bogalusa, see the exposure-zones guide.