Oil City, LA
How exposed is Oil City to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Oil City lands at the 64th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 584 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oil City at the 65th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
584 buildings are counted in Oil City, and 75.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 24.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Oil City ranks
Compare Oil City's two percentiles: 81st within Louisiana, only 64th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oil City ranks 11,346 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,048 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 96 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oil City
Oil City's high rating (64th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 75.5% of Oil City'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 584 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Oil City. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Oil City, see the exposure-zones guide.