Napoleonville, LA
How exposed is Napoleonville to wildfire?
Napoleonville sits at the 5th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 327 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Napoleonville at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Napoleonville's buildings (72.5%) 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.
Napoleonville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Napoleonville's 5th national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Napoleonville ranks 30,072 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,892 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 485 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Napoleonville and the insurance market
Napoleonville's low wildfire rating (5th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Napoleonville (72.5% 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 Napoleonville's 30,072-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Napoleonville, see the exposure-zones guide.