River Ridge, LA
How exposed is River Ridge to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, River Ridge lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 6,074 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 River Ridge at the 17th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
Where River Ridge's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 88.9% of River Ridge's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.4% Direct and 7.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 6,074 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
River Ridge against the rest of the country
River Ridge's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (16th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (18th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, River Ridge ranks 25,941 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,851 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 411 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
River Ridge and the insurance market
River Ridge's low rating (18th 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 River Ridge
River Ridge's 88.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where River Ridge's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,074 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for River Ridge. The exposure-zones guide covers what River Ridge's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.