Wallace Ridge, LA
Wallace Ridge wildfire risk explained
Wallace Ridge's 562 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (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 Ridge at the 25th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Wallace Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 94.8% of Wallace Ridge's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 2.1% Indirect share and far above its 3% Minimal share — a profile where 533 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Wallace Ridge ranks
There's little gap between Wallace Ridge's 25th national percentile and its 26th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wallace Ridge ranks 23,570 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,375 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 364 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Wallace Ridge's moderate rating (25th 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
Wallace Ridge's 94.8% 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
Wallace Ridge's 25th-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 Wallace Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.