Converse, LA
How exposed is Converse to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Converse lands at the 56th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 300 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Converse at the 56th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Converse's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 50.3% of Converse's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 49.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 151 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Converse compares
There's little gap between Converse's 56th national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Converse ranks 13,930 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,633 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 160 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Converse and the insurance market
At the 56th national percentile, Converse rates elevated 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
Converse's 50.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Converse's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Converse, see the exposure-zones guide.