Lacombe, LA
Lacombe, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lacombe sits at the 95th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,647 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 Lacombe at the 94th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Where Lacombe's buildings actually sit
Of Lacombe's 4,647 counted buildings, 90.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Lacombe ranks
There's little gap between Lacombe's 95th national percentile and its 100th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lacombe ranks 1,635 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,660 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 3 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lacombe
Lacombe's 95th-percentile, very 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
With 90.2% of Lacombe 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 Lacombe's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,647 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lacombe. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lacombe's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.