Sorrento, LA
Sorrento wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sorrento at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,005 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 Sorrento at the 24th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
52% of Sorrento's 1,005 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 48% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Sorrento against the rest of the country
Sorrento scores 23rd nationally and 23rd 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, Sorrento ranks 24,269 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,897 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 376 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
Sorrento's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Sorrento
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Sorrento (52% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Sorrento's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sorrento's 24,269-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sorrento's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.