Luling, LA
Luling wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Luling at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 6,252 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Luling's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Luling's buildings (78.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 6,252 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Luling against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Luling's 43rd national percentile and its 44th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Luling ranks 17,959 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,773 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 274 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Luling and the insurance market
At the 43rd national percentile, Luling rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 78.7% of Luling'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
Luling's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Luling, see the exposure-zones guide.