Gretna, LA
How exposed is Gretna to wildfire?
USFS scores Gretna at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 7,888 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gretna at the 18th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Gretna's building exposure, zone by zone
Gretna rates 99.3% Minimal exposure against just 0.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,888 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,888 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Gretna ranks
Gretna scores 19th nationally and 18th 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, Gretna ranks 25,495 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,149 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 402 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gretna
At the 19th national percentile, Gretna rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gretna gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Gretna's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gretna's 25,495-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gretna's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.