Jeanerette, LA
How exposed is Jeanerette to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Jeanerette at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,547 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jeanerette at the 13th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Jeanerette's building exposure, zone by zone
94.2% of Jeanerette's 2,547 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Jeanerette against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Jeanerette's 11th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jeanerette ranks 28,016 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,207 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 456 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Jeanerette and the insurance market
Jeanerette's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Jeanerette gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Jeanerette's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,547 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jeanerette. The exposure-zones guide covers what Jeanerette's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.