Sorrel, LA
Sorrel, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sorrel at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 455 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sorrel at the 8th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Sorrel: 48.1% of its 455 buildings, versus 26.2% Indirect and 25.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Sorrel ranks
Sorrel scores 7th nationally and 2nd 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, Sorrel ranks 29,188 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,174 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 477 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sorrel
Sorrel's low wildfire rating (7th 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.
Hardening a home in Sorrel
Sorrel's 48.1% 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
Sorrel's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sorrel, see the exposure-zones guide.