North Vacherie, LA
How exposed is North Vacherie to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts North Vacherie at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,246 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North Vacherie at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
North Vacherie rates 76.9% Minimal exposure against just 14% Direct and 9.1% Indirect — of 1,246 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
North Vacherie against the rest of the country
North Vacherie scores 11th nationally and 6th 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, North Vacherie ranks 28,112 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,369 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 460 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Vacherie
North Vacherie's low wildfire rating (11th 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 76.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, North Vacherie gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where North Vacherie's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Vacherie's 28,112-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what North Vacherie's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.