Wallace, LA
Wallace wildfire risk explained
Wallace's 509 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wallace at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Wallace's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Wallace's buildings (71.5% of 509) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Wallace compares
Wallace scores 12th nationally and 9th 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, Wallace ranks 27,607 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,191 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 446 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wallace
Wallace's low rating (12th 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
Wallace's 71.5% 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 Wallace's 27,607-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wallace, see the exposure-zones guide.