Denham Springs, LA
How exposed is Denham Springs to wildfire?
USFS scores Denham Springs at the 21st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,894 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 Denham Springs at the 22nd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Denham Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Denham Springs (73.3% of 4,894 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 16.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Denham Springs ranks
Denham Springs scores 21st nationally and 21st 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, Denham Springs ranks 24,768 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,498 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 385 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
Denham Springs's moderate rating (21st 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
Because 73.3% of Denham Springs's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Denham Springs's 24,768-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Denham Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.