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Counties With the Lowest Wildfire Risk in Louisiana (2026)

Orleans has the lowest wildfire risk of any county in Louisiana, at 6.5, followed by Jefferson and St. Bernard (data vintage 2024). The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: FEMA National Risk Index

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Lowest counties for wildfire risk in Louisiana

Top 25 of 64 counties with data.

Ranked by wildfire risk (FEMA National Risk Index, 2024), lowest first.

Lowest counties for wildfire risk in Louisiana
RankCountyValue
1Orleans6.5
2Jefferson11.4
3St. Bernard37.2
4East Baton Rouge38.5
5St. Mary41.7
6Terrebonne42.0
7Lafourche44.0
8St. James44.9
9Assumption45.7
10St. Charles45.8
11Caddo46.7
12Bossier47.5
13West Baton Rouge47.9
14Madison48.1
15Iberville48.4
16St. John the Baptist50.3
17Iberia50.5
18St. Martin51.2
19Concordia54.0
20Ascension54.5
21Ouachita57.1
22Livingston58.3
23Lafayette58.6
24Tensas59.3
25Plaquemines59.3

How this ranking works

This page ranks Louisiana counties by wildfire risk, sorted so the lowest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For wildfire risk, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh wildfire risk against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of wildfire risk.

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