Duson, LA
How exposed is Duson to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Duson at the 37th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 932 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Duson at the 40th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Duson's buildings actually sit
Duson rates 68.6% Minimal exposure against just 31.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 932 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Duson against the rest of the country
Duson scores 37th nationally and 35th 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, Duson ranks 19,758 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 316 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Duson and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Duson rates moderate 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
With 68.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Duson gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Duson's 19,758-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Duson, see the exposure-zones guide.