Sinkhole risk in East Baton Rouge Parish, LA: No soluble rock mapped

No soluble rock mapped

No soluble bedrock mapped.

On soluble rock: 0%
At or near the surface: 0%
Buried under cover: 0%

What to do about a house in East Baton Rouge Parish

No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.

Across 455 square miles, under one square mile of East Baton Rouge Parish maps onto soluble rock. With about 453,022 residents (995 per square mile), most of the county is built up, so a mapped unit is likely to sit under somebody's street. The figures come from 243 map points about 1.4 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Worth reading for this county: why gypsum and salt move faster than limestone, and how these percentages are measured.

Counties around East Baton Rouge Parish

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 231 miles northeast. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

West Baton Rouge Parish, LA 14 mi southwest · 0% at surface
East Feliciana Parish, LA 21 mi north · 0% at surface
Livingston Parish, LA 23 mi east · 0% at surface
Iberville Parish, LA 25 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Ascension Parish, LA 26 mi southeast · 0% at surface
St. Helena Parish, LA 30 mi northeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Louisiana

East Baton Rouge Parish ranks 17 of 64 in Louisiana for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.