Ville Platte, LA
How exposed is Ville Platte to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ville Platte at the 47th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,849 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ville Platte's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 11.2% of Ville Platte's 3,849 buildings carry Direct exposure and 10.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Ville Platte ranks
There's little gap between Ville Platte's 47th national percentile and its 51st percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ville Platte ranks 16,731 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,382 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 241 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ville Platte
Ville Platte's elevated rating (47th 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
Ville Platte's 77.9% 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
Ville Platte's 47th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ville Platte, see the exposure-zones guide.