Crescent, LA
Crescent wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Crescent at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 563 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Crescent's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Crescent's 563 counted buildings, 59.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Crescent against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Crescent's 12th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crescent ranks 27,699 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,358 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 448 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Crescent and the insurance market
At the 12th national percentile, Crescent 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Crescent (59.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Crescent's 12th-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 Crescent, see the exposure-zones guide.