Rodessa, LA
How exposed is Rodessa to wildfire?
Rodessa's 153 buildings earn a 68th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rodessa's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
Where Rodessa's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 64.1% of Rodessa's 153 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 36% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Rodessa ranks
Compare Rodessa's two percentiles: 84th within Louisiana, only 68th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rodessa ranks 10,114 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,750 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 81 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Rodessa's 68th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Rodessa's 64.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Rodessa's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rodessa's 10,114-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rodessa's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.