Brownsville, LA
Brownsville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brownsville at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,700 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brownsville at the 34th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brownsville's buildings actually sit
Only 1.6% of Brownsville's 2,700 buildings carry Direct exposure and 9.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 88.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Brownsville compares
Brownsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (33rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownsville ranks 20,854 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,929 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 329 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
Brownsville's moderate rating (34th 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
Even with 88.7% of Brownsville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,700 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brownsville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brownsville, see the exposure-zones guide.