Triumph, LA
Triumph wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Triumph at the 45th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 271 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 Triumph at the 30th percentile, lower than its 45th-percentile risk score, because so much is actually built here.
Where Triumph's buildings actually sit
57.9% of Triumph's 271 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 38.4% Direct and 3.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Triumph against the rest of the country
Triumph's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (47th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (45th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Triumph ranks 17,302 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,471 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 258 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Triumph and the insurance market
Triumph's elevated rating (45th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Triumph (57.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Triumph's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Triumph's 17,302-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Triumph's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.