Castor, LA
How exposed is Castor to wildfire?
USFS scores Castor at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 206 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Castor at the 53rd percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Castor's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Castor: 78.6% of its 206 buildings, versus 21.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Castor against the rest of the country
Castor scores 52nd nationally and 61st within Louisiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Castor ranks 15,064 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,639 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 189 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Castor
Castor's elevated wildfire rating (52nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Castor
With 78.6% of Castor in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Castor's 15,064-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Castor, see the exposure-zones guide.