Echo, LA
How exposed is Echo to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Echo at the 59th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 290 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Echo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Echo's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Echo: 78.3% of its 290 buildings, versus 21.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Echo ranks
Echo's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (73rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (59th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Echo ranks 13,013 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,909 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 129 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Echo
Echo's elevated rating (59th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Echo's 78.3% 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
Echo's 59th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Echo, see the exposure-zones guide.