Turkey Creek, LA
Turkey Creek wildfire risk explained
Turkey Creek sits at the 83rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 318 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Turkey Creek at the 85th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Turkey Creek's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 77.7% of Turkey Creek's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 22.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 247 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Turkey Creek compares
Turkey Creek's risk sits at a similar level relative to Louisiana (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (83rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Turkey Creek ranks 5,388 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 33 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
Turkey Creek's 83rd-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Turkey Creek's 77.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 318 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Turkey Creek. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Turkey Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.