Oretta, LA
How exposed is Oretta to wildfire?
Oretta's 244 buildings earn a 90th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oretta at the 92nd percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Oretta's 244 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Oretta against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Oretta's 90th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oretta ranks 3,054 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,333 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 5 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oretta
Oretta's very high rating (90th 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.
Hardening a home in Oretta
Because Direct exposure dominates in Oretta (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Oretta's figures come from
Oretta's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oretta's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.