Vidalia, LA
Vidalia wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Vidalia at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,229 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Vidalia at the 28th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Vidalia's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 54.5% of Vidalia's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 17.1% Direct and 28.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Vidalia compares
There's little gap between Vidalia's 28th national percentile and its 28th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vidalia ranks 22,779 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,864 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 351 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Vidalia and the insurance market
Vidalia's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Vidalia's 54.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vidalia's 22,779-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vidalia, see the exposure-zones guide.