Rock Hill, LA
Rock Hill wildfire risk explained
Rock Hill's 178 buildings earn a 66th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rock Hill at the 68th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rock Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Rock Hill's 178 counted buildings, 93.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Rock Hill against the rest of the country
Within Louisiana, Rock Hill ranks higher (83rd percentile) than it does nationally (66th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rock Hill ranks 10,650 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,715 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 85 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Rock Hill and the insurance market
Rock Hill's 66th-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 Rock Hill
With 93.3% of Rock Hill in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rock Hill's 10,650-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rock Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.