Pollock, LA
Pollock, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pollock sits at the 65th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 297 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pollock at the 66th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Where Pollock's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Pollock: 70% of its 297 buildings, versus 30% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Pollock against the rest of the country
Compare Pollock's two percentiles: 81st within Louisiana, only 65th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pollock ranks 11,089 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,708 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 92 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Pollock's 65th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Pollock
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pollock (70%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pollock's 11,089-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pollock, see the exposure-zones guide.