Elmwood, LA
Elmwood, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Elmwood's 1,814 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Elmwood at the 24th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.3% of Elmwood's 1,814 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Elmwood against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Elmwood's 25th national percentile and its 26th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Elmwood ranks 23,510 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,019 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 361 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Elmwood
Elmwood's moderate wildfire rating (25th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Elmwood's 99.3% 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.
Where Elmwood's figures come from
Elmwood's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Elmwood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.