Maurice, LA
Maurice wildfire risk explained
Maurice's 1,122 buildings earn a 41st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Maurice at the 44th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Where Maurice's buildings actually sit
Maurice rates 57.3% Minimal exposure against just 42.3% Direct and 0.5% Indirect — of 1,122 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Maurice against the rest of the country
Maurice scores 41st nationally and 40th within Louisiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maurice ranks 18,720 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,138 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 295 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
Maurice's elevated rating (41st 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 Maurice
Maurice's 57.3% 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.
Where Maurice's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,122 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maurice. The exposure-zones guide covers what Maurice's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.