Cottonport, LA
Cottonport, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cottonport at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,116 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cottonport at the 16th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Cottonport's building exposure, zone by zone
56.2% of Cottonport's 1,116 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 29.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Cottonport compares
Cottonport scores 16th nationally and 14th within Louisiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cottonport ranks 26,565 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,174 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 422 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cottonport
Cottonport's low wildfire rating (16th 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.
Hardening a home in Cottonport
Even with 56.2% of Cottonport 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 1,116 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cottonport. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cottonport, see the exposure-zones guide.