Livingston, LA
How exposed is Livingston to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Livingston at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,272 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Livingston at the 37th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Livingston's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Livingston's 1,272 counted buildings, 60.5% 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.
Livingston against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Livingston's 38th national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Livingston ranks 19,599 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,237 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 311 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Livingston and the insurance market
Livingston's moderate wildfire rating (38th 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 Livingston
Livingston's 60.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Livingston's 19,599-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Livingston, see the exposure-zones guide.