Raceland, LA
Raceland, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Raceland at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,836 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Raceland at the 24th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Raceland's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Raceland (71% of 5,836 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 17.6% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,836 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Raceland against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Raceland's 27th national percentile and its 28th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Raceland ranks 22,916 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,954 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 354 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Raceland
Raceland's moderate rating (27th 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 Raceland
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Raceland (71% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,836 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Raceland. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Raceland, see the exposure-zones guide.