Gardere, LA
Gardere, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Gardere lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 3,657 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gardere at the 15th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Where Gardere's buildings actually sit
Gardere rates 63.3% Minimal exposure against just 9.4% Direct and 27.3% Indirect — of 3,657 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Gardere ranks
There's little gap between Gardere's 14th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gardere ranks 27,068 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,574 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 436 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Gardere and the insurance market
At the 14th national percentile, Gardere rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 63.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gardere gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gardere's 27,068-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Gardere, see the exposure-zones guide.