Franklin, LA
How exposed is Franklin to wildfire?
Franklin's 3,823 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Franklin at the 13th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Franklin's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 50.7% of Franklin's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4% Direct and 45.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Franklin compares
Franklin's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (12th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Franklin ranks 26,945 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,406 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 430 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Franklin
Franklin's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 50.7% of Franklin outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Franklin's 26,945-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Franklin, see the exposure-zones guide.