Scott, LA
Scott, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Scott's 5,129 buildings earn a 48th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Scott at the 51st percentile, close to its 48th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 34.8% of Scott's 5,129 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 65.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,129 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Scott compares
There's little gap between Scott's 48th national percentile and its 53rd percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Scott ranks 16,451 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,365 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 229 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
At the 48th national percentile, Scott 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
With 65.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Scott gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Scott's 48th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Scott, see the exposure-zones guide.