St. Gabriel, LA
How exposed is St. Gabriel to wildfire?
St. Gabriel's 2,982 buildings earn a 18th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, St. Gabriel's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
St. Gabriel's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of St. Gabriel's buildings (55.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where St. Gabriel ranks
There's little gap between St. Gabriel's 18th national percentile and its 16th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. Gabriel ranks 25,744 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,463 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 410 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in St. Gabriel
At the 18th national percentile, St. Gabriel rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 55.2% of St. Gabriel's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind St. Gabriel's 25,744-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond St. Gabriel, see the exposure-zones guide.