Pineville, LA
Pineville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pineville lands at the 61st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 6,300 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pineville at the 63rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pineville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 62.5% of Pineville's 6,300 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 37.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 6,300 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Pineville compares
Within Louisiana, Pineville ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (61st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pineville ranks 12,164 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,755 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 114 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 61st percentile nationally, Pineville carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 62.5% of Pineville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pineville's 61st-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 Pineville, see the exposure-zones guide.