Moonshine, LA
Moonshine, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Moonshine lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 104 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Moonshine at the 14th 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
Moonshine rates 73.1% Minimal exposure against just 18.3% Direct and 8.7% Indirect — of 104 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Moonshine ranks
There's little gap between Moonshine's 14th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moonshine ranks 27,104 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,848 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 437 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Moonshine
At the 14th national percentile, Moonshine rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Moonshine's 73.1% 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
Moonshine's 14th-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 Moonshine, see the exposure-zones guide.