Lacassine, LA
How exposed is Lacassine to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lacassine at the 52nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 337 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lacassine at the 55th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lacassine's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 65.9% of Lacassine's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 33.8% Indirect share and far above its 0.3% Minimal share — a profile where 222 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Lacassine compares
There's little gap between Lacassine's 52nd national percentile and its 61st percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lacassine ranks 15,065 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,659 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 190 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Lacassine and the insurance market
Lacassine'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 Lacassine
With 65.9% of Lacassine in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Lacassine's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 337 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lacassine. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lacassine's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.