Madisonville, LA
Madisonville, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Madisonville at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 607 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Madisonville at the 80th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Madisonville (72% of 607 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 27.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Madisonville ranks
Madisonville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (95th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Madisonville ranks 4,819 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,733 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 26 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Madisonville
Madisonville's 85th-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
Because 72% of Madisonville'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
Madisonville's 85th-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 Madisonville, see the exposure-zones guide.