Winnfield, LA
Winnfield, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Winnfield's 2,413 buildings earn a 58th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Winnfield at the 59th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Winnfield (69.2% of 2,413 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 30.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Winnfield against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Winnfield's 58th national percentile and its 72nd percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winnfield ranks 13,210 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,486 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 138 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
Winnfield's elevated rating (58th 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
Because 69.2% of Winnfield'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winnfield's 13,210-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Winnfield, see the exposure-zones guide.