Mandeville, LA
How exposed is Mandeville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mandeville at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 4,866 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 Mandeville at the 82nd percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Mandeville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Mandeville's buildings (54.2%) 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.
Where Mandeville ranks
Mandeville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (96th 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, Mandeville ranks 4,727 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,515 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 23 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Mandeville'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.
Hardening a home in Mandeville
Mandeville's 54.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Mandeville's figures come from
Mandeville's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mandeville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.