Port Vincent, LA
How exposed is Port Vincent to wildfire?
USFS scores Port Vincent at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 472 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Port Vincent's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Port Vincent: 68.2% of its 472 buildings, versus 31.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Port Vincent ranks
There's little gap between Port Vincent's 29th national percentile and its 29th 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 Vincent ranks 22,402 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,837 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 348 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Port Vincent and the insurance market
Port Vincent's moderate wildfire rating (29th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Port Vincent
Because Direct exposure dominates in Port Vincent (68.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Port Vincent's 29th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Port Vincent, see the exposure-zones guide.