Sicily Island, LA
How exposed is Sicily Island to wildfire?
USFS scores Sicily Island at the 42nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 299 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 Sicily Island at the 41st percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
Where Sicily Island's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Sicily Island (62.9% of 299 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 37.1% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Sicily Island ranks
Sicily Island's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (43rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (42nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sicily Island ranks 18,153 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,651 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 284 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
Sicily Island's elevated wildfire rating (42nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Sicily Island's 62.9% 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
Sicily Island's 42nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sicily Island, see the exposure-zones guide.