WildfireRiskFinder

Oak Hills Place, LA

How exposed is Oak Hills Place to wildfire?

Low
13thpercentile nationally

USFS scores Oak Hills Place at the 13th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 3,695 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Oak Hills Place at the 14th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.

Where Oak Hills Place's buildings actually sit

3,695Total buildings
7.4%Direct exposure
21.1%Indirect exposure
71.5%Minimal exposure

USFS classifies 71.5% of Oak Hills Place's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.4% Direct and 21.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.

Oak Hills Place against the rest of the country

Oak Hills Place's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (9th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (13th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oak Hills Place ranks 27,383 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,534 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 444 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Oak Hills Place

At the 13th national percentile, Oak Hills Place rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

What would actually reduce this score

With 71.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Oak Hills Place gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.

Where Oak Hills Place's figures come from

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,695 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Oak Hills Place. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oak Hills Place's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.