Mount Lebanon, LA
How exposed is Mount Lebanon to wildfire?
USFS scores Mount Lebanon at the 48th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 94 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Lebanon at the 49th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Lebanon's buildings actually sit
100% of Mount Lebanon's 94 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 94 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Mount Lebanon compares
Mount Lebanon scores 48th nationally and 54th 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, Mount Lebanon ranks 16,450 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,312 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 228 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Mount Lebanon and the insurance market
Mount Lebanon's elevated wildfire rating (48th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Mount Lebanon (100%), 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
Mount Lebanon's 48th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Lebanon, see the exposure-zones guide.