Supreme, LA
Supreme wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Supreme at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 482 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 Supreme at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Supreme's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 35.3% of Supreme's 482 buildings carry Direct exposure and 16.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 48.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Supreme compares
Supreme scores 8th nationally and 3rd 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, Supreme ranks 29,058 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,667 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 476 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Supreme and the insurance market
Supreme's low wildfire rating (8th 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
Even with 48.1% of Supreme outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Supreme's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 482 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Supreme. The exposure-zones guide covers what Supreme's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.