Catahoula, LA
How exposed is Catahoula to wildfire?
Catahoula's 706 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Catahoula at the 14th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Catahoula's building exposure, zone by zone
68.8% of Catahoula's 706 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 30.9% Direct and 0.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Catahoula ranks
There's little gap between Catahoula's 14th national percentile and its 10th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Catahoula ranks 27,162 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,597 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 438 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Catahoula
At the 14th national percentile, Catahoula rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Catahoula (68.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Catahoula's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Catahoula, see the exposure-zones guide.