Eunice, LA
How exposed is Eunice to wildfire?
Eunice's 4,871 buildings earn a 43rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eunice at the 45th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 74.4% of Eunice's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.7% Direct and 17.9% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Eunice against the rest of the country
Eunice's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (44th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (43rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eunice ranks 17,899 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,513 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 273 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
Eunice's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Eunice's 74.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,871 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Eunice. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Eunice, see the exposure-zones guide.