Haughton, LA
How exposed is Haughton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Haughton at the 48th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,277 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Haughton at the 49th percentile, close to its 48th-percentile risk score.
Haughton's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 63.1% of Haughton's 2,277 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 36.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Haughton against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Haughton's 48th national percentile and its 54th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Haughton ranks 16,352 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,754 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 225 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Haughton
Haughton's elevated wildfire rating (48th 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
Because 63.1% of Haughton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,277 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Haughton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Haughton, see the exposure-zones guide.