Grambling, LA
Grambling, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grambling at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,394 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grambling at the 46th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Grambling's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Grambling: 63.9% of its 1,394 buildings, versus 36.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Grambling against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Grambling's 46th national percentile and its 48th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grambling ranks 17,139 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,656 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 254 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Grambling's elevated wildfire rating (46th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 63.9% of Grambling 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
Grambling's 46th-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 Grambling, see the exposure-zones guide.