Sinkhole risk in West 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 West 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 192 square miles, under one square mile of West Baton Rouge Parish maps onto soluble rock. With about 28,425 residents (148 per square mile), homes are spread across towns and farmland, and a mapped unit may or may not reach the developed parts. The figures come from 418 map points about 0.7 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Two things to read before deciding: why gypsum and salt move faster than limestone, and how these percentages are measured.

Counties around West Baton Rouge Parish

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 243 miles northeast. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Iberville Parish, LA 14 mi south · 0% at surface
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA 14 mi northeast · 0% at surface
Pointe Coupee Parish, LA 24 mi northwest · 0% at surface
West Feliciana Parish, LA 29 mi north · 0% at surface
Ascension Parish, LA 30 mi southeast · 0% at surface
St. Martin Parish, LA 30 mi southwest · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Louisiana

West Baton Rouge Parish ranks 61 of 64 in Louisiana for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.