Rosepine, LA
Rosepine wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rosepine at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 823 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rosepine at the 86th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Where Rosepine's buildings actually sit
823 buildings are counted in Rosepine, and 52.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Rosepine ranks
Rosepine's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (94th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (84th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rosepine ranks 4,983 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,415 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 31 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Rosepine and the insurance market
Rosepine's very high rating (84th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Rosepine
Rosepine's 52.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rosepine's 4,983-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rosepine, see the exposure-zones guide.