Kenner, LA
Kenner, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kenner sits at the 52nd 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 23,617 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 Kenner at the 40th percentile, lower than its 52nd-percentile risk score, because so much is actually built here.
Kenner's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 0.4% of Kenner's 23,617 buildings carry Direct exposure and 19.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 80.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 23,617 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Kenner compares
Kenner scores 52nd nationally and 61st 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, Kenner ranks 15,128 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 548 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 192 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kenner
Kenner's elevated wildfire rating (52nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Kenner
Kenner's 80.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 23,617 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kenner. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kenner, see the exposure-zones guide.