Marksville, LA
Marksville wildfire risk explained
Marksville sits at the 51st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,081 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Marksville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 51st percentile nationally.
Where Marksville's buildings actually sit
Most of Marksville's buildings (75.1%) 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.
How Marksville compares
Marksville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (59th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (51st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marksville ranks 15,595 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,312 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 200 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
Marksville's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Marksville
Because 75.1% of Marksville'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marksville's 15,595-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Marksville, see the exposure-zones guide.