Pleasure Bend, LA
How exposed is Pleasure Bend to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pleasure Bend lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 237 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pleasure Bend at the 28th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
237 buildings are counted in Pleasure Bend, and 92% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 7.6% in Direct exposure or the 0.4% rated Minimal.
How Pleasure Bend compares
There's little gap between Pleasure Bend's 34th national percentile and its 33rd percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasure Bend ranks 20,826 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,555 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 328 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasure Bend
Pleasure Bend's moderate rating (34th 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 Pleasure Bend
Because 92% of Pleasure Bend'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 237 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleasure Bend. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pleasure Bend, see the exposure-zones guide.