Jennings, LA
How exposed is Jennings to wildfire?
Jennings sits at the 46th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,548 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jennings at the 48th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Jennings (54.2% of 5,548 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 17.8% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,548 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Jennings compares
There's little gap between Jennings's 46th national percentile and its 48th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jennings ranks 17,111 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,107 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 253 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jennings
At the 46th national percentile, Jennings rates elevated 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
Because 54.2% of Jennings's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Jennings's 46th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jennings, see the exposure-zones guide.