Lockport Heights, LA
How exposed is Lockport Heights to wildfire?
Lockport Heights's 709 buildings earn a 29th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lockport Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Lockport Heights (82.9% of 709 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 17.1% sit in the Direct zone.
How Lockport Heights compares
Lockport Heights's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (28th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (29th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lockport Heights ranks 22,466 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,570 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 349 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Lockport Heights and the insurance market
Lockport Heights's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 82.9% of Lockport Heights'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 709 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lockport Heights. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lockport Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.