Hackberry, LA
How exposed is Hackberry to wildfire?
Hackberry sits at the 97th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,546 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 Hackberry at the 94th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Where Hackberry's buildings actually sit
67.3% of Hackberry's 1,546 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,040 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 20% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 12.7% are Minimal.
How Hackberry compares
There's little gap between Hackberry's 97th national percentile and its 100th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hackberry ranks 1,099 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,966 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 2 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hackberry
Hackberry's 97th-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Hackberry's 67.3% 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
Hackberry's 97th-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 Hackberry, see the exposure-zones guide.