Robeline, LA
Robeline wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Robeline at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 156 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 Robeline at the 71st percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Robeline's building exposure, zone by zone
61.5% of Robeline's 156 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 38.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Robeline ranks
Compare Robeline's two percentiles: 85th within Louisiana, only 69th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Robeline ranks 9,797 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,621 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 76 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Robeline and the insurance market
Robeline's 69th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Robeline
Because 61.5% of Robeline's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Robeline's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Robeline's 9,797-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Robeline's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.