Terrytown, LA
How exposed is Terrytown to wildfire?
Terrytown sits at the 26th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 7,169 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Terrytown at the 27th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Terrytown's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.4% of Terrytown's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 7,169 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Terrytown ranks
Terrytown's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (27th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (26th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Terrytown ranks 23,447 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,389 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 359 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Terrytown and the insurance market
Terrytown's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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 Terrytown
Even with 99.4% of Terrytown 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 Terrytown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Terrytown's 23,447-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Terrytown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.