Vivian, LA
How exposed is Vivian to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Vivian lands at the 72nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,855 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vivian at the 73rd percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Where Vivian's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Vivian (77.3% of 1,855 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 22.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Vivian against the rest of the country
Vivian's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (86th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (72nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vivian ranks 8,857 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,896 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 69 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Vivian
Vivian's 72nd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 77.3% of Vivian's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Vivian's 72nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Vivian, see the exposure-zones guide.