Parks, LA
How exposed is Parks to wildfire?
USFS scores Parks at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 452 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Parks at the 10th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Parks's building exposure, zone by zone
52.9% of Parks's 452 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 239 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 42.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 4.7% are Minimal.
Parks against the rest of the country
Parks's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (3rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parks ranks 28,770 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,236 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 473 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parks
Parks's low rating (9th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Parks
Parks's 52.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Parks's 28,770-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Parks, see the exposure-zones guide.