Vienna, LA
Vienna wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Vienna at the 45th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 253 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Vienna's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 46th percentile nationally.
Vienna's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Vienna's 253 counted buildings, 99.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Vienna against the rest of the country
Vienna's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (46th 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, Vienna ranks 17,394 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,044 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 262 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Vienna
Vienna's elevated wildfire rating (45th 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
Vienna's 99.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Vienna's 45th-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 Vienna, see the exposure-zones guide.