Kentwood, LA
How exposed is Kentwood to wildfire?
Kentwood sits at the 80th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,403 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kentwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Kentwood: 57% of its 1,403 buildings, versus 43.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Kentwood against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Kentwood's 80th national percentile and its 92nd percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kentwood ranks 6,300 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,611 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 38 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Kentwood and the insurance market
Kentwood's 80th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kentwood (57%), 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
Kentwood's 80th-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 Kentwood, see the exposure-zones guide.