Midway, LA
Midway wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Midway lands at the 61st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 803 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Midway at the 62nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Midway's 803 counted buildings, 69.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Midway against the rest of the country
Compare Midway's two percentiles: 77th within Louisiana, only 61st nationally — a gap of 15 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Midway ranks 12,163 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,606 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 113 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Midway and the insurance market
At the 61st percentile nationally, Midway carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Midway
Because Direct exposure dominates in Midway (69.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Midway's 12,163-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Midway, see the exposure-zones guide.