Sarepta, LA
Sarepta, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Sarepta at the 59th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 577 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 Sarepta at the 60th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
Sarepta's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 72.6% of Sarepta's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 27.4% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 419 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Sarepta against the rest of the country
Compare Sarepta's two percentiles: 75th within Louisiana, only 59th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sarepta ranks 12,826 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,148 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 123 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sarepta
At the 59th national percentile, Sarepta rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sarepta's 72.6% 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 Sarepta's 12,826-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sarepta, see the exposure-zones guide.