Ventress, LA
How exposed is Ventress to wildfire?
USFS scores Ventress at the 21st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 820 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ventress at the 23rd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Ventress's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Ventress's 820 counted buildings, 54.9% carry Direct exposure and only 6.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Ventress against the rest of the country
Ventress scores 21st nationally and 20th 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, Ventress ranks 24,993 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,448 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 389 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ventress
Ventress's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 54.9% of Ventress 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
Ventress's 21st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ventress, see the exposure-zones guide.