Starks, LA
How exposed is Starks to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Starks lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 453 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Starks's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 92nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
72.9% of Starks's 453 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 330 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 27.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Starks compares
Starks scores 90th nationally and 98th within Louisiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Starks ranks 3,216 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,216 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 9 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
Starks'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 Starks
Starks's 72.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Starks's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Starks, see the exposure-zones guide.