Franklinton, LA
Franklinton, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Franklinton at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 2,100 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Franklinton at the 83rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
50.7% of Franklinton's 2,100 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,065 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 49.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Franklinton compares
Franklinton scores 81st nationally and 93rd 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, Franklinton ranks 6,112 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,191 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 37 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Franklinton and the insurance market
Franklinton's 81st-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Franklinton's 50.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Franklinton's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,100 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Franklinton. The exposure-zones guide covers what Franklinton's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.