Dry Prong, LA
How exposed is Dry Prong to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dry Prong at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 306 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dry Prong's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Dry Prong's 306 counted buildings, 87.3% 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.
How Dry Prong compares
Compare Dry Prong's two percentiles: 80th within Louisiana, only 63rd nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dry Prong ranks 11,664 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,470 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 102 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
Dry Prong's 63rd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87.3% of Dry Prong in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Dry Prong's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dry Prong's 11,664-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dry Prong's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.