Winnsboro, LA
How exposed is Winnsboro to wildfire?
Winnsboro sits at the 46th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,473 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Winnsboro at the 47th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
68.9% of Winnsboro's 2,473 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 28.1% Direct and 2.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Winnsboro ranks
There's little gap between Winnsboro's 46th national percentile and its 49th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winnsboro ranks 16,985 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,351 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 250 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Winnsboro and the insurance market
Winnsboro's elevated rating (46th 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
Winnsboro's 68.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winnsboro's 16,985-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Winnsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.