Lake Arthur, LA
How exposed is Lake Arthur to wildfire?
Lake Arthur's 1,720 buildings earn a 45th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lake Arthur at the 47th 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
USFS puts 84.7% of Lake Arthur's 1,720 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 12.2% Direct and 3.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Lake Arthur compares
There's little gap between Lake Arthur's 45th 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, Lake Arthur ranks 17,268 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,341 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 256 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Lake Arthur and the insurance market
At the 45th national percentile, Lake Arthur 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 84.7% of Lake Arthur'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Arthur's 17,268-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lake Arthur, see the exposure-zones guide.