Ida, LA
How exposed is Ida to wildfire?
USFS scores Ida at the 68th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 223 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ida at the 69th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Ida's buildings actually sit
223 buildings are counted in Ida, and 90.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Ida against the rest of the country
Within Louisiana, Ida ranks higher (83rd percentile) than it does nationally (68th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ida ranks 10,244 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,013 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 82 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Ida and the insurance market
At the 68th percentile nationally, Ida carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Ida
Because Direct exposure dominates in Ida (90.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ida's 10,244-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ida, see the exposure-zones guide.