Roanoke, LA
Roanoke, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Roanoke at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 338 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 Roanoke at the 29th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 75.2% of Roanoke's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 24.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Roanoke against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Roanoke's 28th 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, Roanoke ranks 22,850 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,630 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 352 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Roanoke
Roanoke's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 75.2% of Roanoke outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 338 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Roanoke. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Roanoke, see the exposure-zones guide.