Tangipahoa, LA
Tangipahoa wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tangipahoa at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 397 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 Tangipahoa at the 79th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Tangipahoa: 86.9% of its 397 buildings, versus 13.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Tangipahoa against the rest of the country
Tangipahoa scores 77th nationally and 91st 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, Tangipahoa ranks 7,121 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,266 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 47 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tangipahoa
Tangipahoa's 77th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
With 86.9% of Tangipahoa in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tangipahoa's 7,121-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tangipahoa, see the exposure-zones guide.