Garyville, LA
How exposed is Garyville to wildfire?
Garyville sits at the 17th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,947 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Garyville at the 18th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Garyville's building exposure, zone by zone
Garyville rates 60.3% Minimal exposure against just 19% Direct and 20.7% Indirect — of 1,947 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Garyville against the rest of the country
Garyville scores 17th nationally and 15th 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, Garyville ranks 26,060 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,624 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 415 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Garyville
Garyville's low rating (17th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Garyville
Garyville's 60.3% 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
Garyville's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Garyville, see the exposure-zones guide.