Shenandoah, LA
How exposed is Shenandoah to wildfire?
Shenandoah's 7,466 buildings earn a 23rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Shenandoah's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Shenandoah rates 61.1% Minimal exposure against just 12.2% Direct and 26.7% Indirect — of 7,466 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,466 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Shenandoah compares
Shenandoah scores 23rd nationally and 24th within Louisiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shenandoah ranks 24,268 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,286 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 375 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shenandoah and the insurance market
At the 23rd national percentile, Shenandoah rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Shenandoah
Even with 61.1% of Shenandoah outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,466 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Shenandoah. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Shenandoah, see the exposure-zones guide.