Westlake, LA
Westlake, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Westlake at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,593 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Westlake's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
Westlake's building exposure, zone by zone
Westlake rates 86% Minimal exposure against just 12.3% Direct and 1.7% Indirect — of 2,593 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Westlake compares
Westlake scores 75th nationally and 89th 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, Westlake ranks 7,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,116 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 56 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Westlake
At the 75th percentile nationally, Westlake carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 86% of Westlake outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Westlake's 75th-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 Westlake, see the exposure-zones guide.