Breaux Bridge, LA
How exposed is Breaux Bridge to wildfire?
USFS scores Breaux Bridge at the 11th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 4,159 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Breaux Bridge at the 12th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Breaux Bridge's buildings actually sit
Most of Breaux Bridge's buildings (67%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Breaux Bridge compares
There's little gap between Breaux Bridge's 11th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Breaux Bridge ranks 27,953 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,096 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 454 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 11th national percentile, Breaux Bridge rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Breaux Bridge
Because 67% of Breaux Bridge'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
Breaux Bridge's 11th-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 Breaux Bridge, see the exposure-zones guide.