Walker, LA
Walker, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Walker at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,323 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Walker at the 29th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 65.3% of Walker's 3,323 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 34.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Walker against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Walker's 29th national percentile and its 30th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walker ranks 22,247 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,015 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 345 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Walker
Walker's moderate wildfire rating (29th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Walker
Walker's 65.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Walker's 22,247-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Walker, see the exposure-zones guide.