Sibley, LA
How exposed is Sibley to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sibley at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 748 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 Sibley at the 51st percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Sibley (51.2% of 748 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 48.8% sit in the Direct zone.
How Sibley compares
There's little gap between Sibley's 51st national percentile and its 59th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sibley ranks 15,596 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,139 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 201 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sibley
Sibley's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sibley's 51.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sibley's 15,596-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sibley, see the exposure-zones guide.