Youngsville, LA
Youngsville, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Youngsville at the 38th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 6,543 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Youngsville at the 42nd national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Youngsville's buildings (81.2% of 6,543) 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. At 6,543 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Youngsville ranks
There's little gap between Youngsville's 38th national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Youngsville ranks 19,472 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,653 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 309 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Youngsville
Youngsville's moderate rating (38th 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
Even with 81.2% of Youngsville 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Youngsville's 19,472-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Youngsville, see the exposure-zones guide.