Port Barre, LA
How exposed is Port Barre to wildfire?
USFS scores Port Barre at the 13th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,174 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Port Barre at the 12th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Port Barre's buildings (80.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Port Barre against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Port Barre's 13th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Barre ranks 27,575 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,802 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 445 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Port Barre and the insurance market
Port Barre's low rating (13th 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 Port Barre
Because 80.6% of Port Barre'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
Port Barre's 13th-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 Port Barre, see the exposure-zones guide.