Grand Isle, LA
How exposed is Grand Isle to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grand Isle lands at the 32nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 2,698 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grand Isle at the 17th national percentile — 15 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Grand Isle's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 91.2% of Grand Isle's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.3% Direct and 2.5% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Grand Isle compares
There's little gap between Grand Isle's 32nd national percentile and its 31st percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grand Isle ranks 21,329 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,936 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 336 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Grand Isle
At the 32nd national percentile, Grand Isle rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Grand Isle
Even with 91.2% of Grand Isle 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 Grand Isle's 21,329-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Grand Isle, see the exposure-zones guide.