Bordelonville, LA
How exposed is Bordelonville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bordelonville at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 562 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bordelonville at the 21st percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
Where Bordelonville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 54.6% of Bordelonville's 562 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 45.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Bordelonville ranks
There's little gap between Bordelonville's 22nd national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bordelonville ranks 24,551 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,374 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 378 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Bordelonville and the insurance market
Bordelonville's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 54.6% of Bordelonville'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
Bordelonville's 22nd-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 Bordelonville, see the exposure-zones guide.