Greensburg, LA
How exposed is Greensburg to wildfire?
Greensburg's 427 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Greensburg at the 80th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Greensburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Greensburg: 67.5% of its 427 buildings, versus 32.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Greensburg ranks
Greensburg scores 78th nationally and 91st 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, Greensburg ranks 6,935 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,712 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 43 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greensburg
Greensburg's 78th-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Greensburg
Greensburg's 67.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Greensburg's 78th-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 Greensburg, see the exposure-zones guide.