Mansura, LA
Mansura wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mansura lands at the 47th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 933 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mansura at the 48th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Where Mansura's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 50.8% of Mansura's 933 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 49% Direct and 0.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Mansura compares
There's little gap between Mansura's 47th national percentile and its 51st percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mansura ranks 16,795 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,441 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 242 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
Mansura's elevated wildfire rating (47th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Mansura's 50.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Mansura's 47th-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 Mansura, see the exposure-zones guide.