Centerville, LA
Centerville wildfire risk explained
Centerville's 359 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Centerville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Centerville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 71.9% of Centerville's 359 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 28.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Centerville compares
Centerville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (3rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Centerville ranks 28,587 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 472 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Centerville
At the 9th national percentile, Centerville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Centerville (71.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Centerville's 9th-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 Centerville, see the exposure-zones guide.