Choctaw, LA
How exposed is Choctaw to wildfire?
Choctaw sits at the 20th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 550 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Choctaw's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Choctaw's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 96.4% of Choctaw's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 3.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 530 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Choctaw against the rest of the country
Choctaw's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Choctaw ranks 25,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,569 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 390 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Choctaw
Choctaw's moderate wildfire rating (20th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Choctaw's 96.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Choctaw's 25,116-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Choctaw, see the exposure-zones guide.