Reserve, LA
How exposed is Reserve to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Reserve lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 4,890 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Reserve at the 19th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
61.1% of Reserve's 4,890 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 11.1% Direct and 27.8% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Reserve compares
There's little gap between Reserve's 19th national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Reserve ranks 25,496 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,502 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 403 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Reserve
At the 19th national percentile, Reserve rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Reserve
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Reserve (61.1% 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 4,890 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Reserve. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Reserve, see the exposure-zones guide.