Dorseyville, LA
How exposed is Dorseyville to wildfire?
USFS scores Dorseyville at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 119 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dorseyville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
87.4% of Dorseyville's 119 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Dorseyville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Dorseyville's 5th national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dorseyville ranks 29,982 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,198 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 484 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dorseyville
Dorseyville's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Dorseyville's 87.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dorseyville's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dorseyville, see the exposure-zones guide.