St. James, LA
How exposed is St. James to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts St. James at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 709 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, St. James's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
St. James's building exposure, zone by zone
St. James rates 62.8% Minimal exposure against just 19% Direct and 18.2% Indirect — of 709 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How St. James compares
St. James scores 11th nationally and 7th 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, St. James ranks 27,926 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,571 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 453 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in St. James
St. James's low wildfire rating (11th 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 St. James
With 62.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, St. James gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind St. James's 27,926-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond St. James, see the exposure-zones guide.