Pine Prairie, LA
Pine Prairie, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pine Prairie at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 616 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 Pine Prairie at the 86th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Pine Prairie's building exposure, zone by zone
86% of Pine Prairie's 616 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 14% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Pine Prairie compares
Pine Prairie scores 85th nationally and 95th 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, Pine Prairie ranks 4,789 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,619 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 25 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Pine Prairie and the insurance market
Pine Prairie's very high rating (85th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pine Prairie (86% 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
Pine Prairie's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pine Prairie, see the exposure-zones guide.