Forest Hill, LA
Forest Hill wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Forest Hill at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 662 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Forest Hill at the 86th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Forest Hill's 662 counted buildings, 91.1% 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 Forest Hill compares
Forest Hill scores 84th nationally and 95th 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, Forest Hill ranks 4,919 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,037 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 28 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Forest Hill and the insurance market
Forest Hill's very high rating (84th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91.1% of Forest Hill 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.
More on how this number was built
Forest Hill's 84th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Forest Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.