Minden, LA
Minden wildfire risk explained
Minden's 6,843 buildings earn a 47th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Minden at the 48th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Minden's buildings actually sit
Most of Minden's buildings (69.2%) 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. At 6,843 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Minden against the rest of the country
Minden scores 47th nationally and 52nd 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, Minden ranks 16,605 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,530 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 238 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
Minden'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Minden (69.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Minden's 16,605-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Minden, see the exposure-zones guide.