Marrero, LA
How exposed is Marrero to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Marrero at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 14,223 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marrero at the 42nd national percentile — 8 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Marrero's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Marrero's buildings (50.6% of 14,223) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 14,223 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Marrero compares
Marrero's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (60th 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, Marrero ranks 15,536 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,052 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 198 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Marrero
Marrero's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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.
Hardening a home in Marrero
Marrero's 50.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Marrero's 51st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marrero, see the exposure-zones guide.