The ochre bush squirrel lives in East African savanna woodland. Its pelage is listed as having no red coloration, and the flanks have no stripe or at most one pale stripe. Detailed ecology is poorly known.
The specialist volume lists no red coloration in the pelage and no flank stripe or, at most, one pale stripe. Mean head-and-body length is 155 mm.
The volume lists this species in savanna woodland. It also notes that detailed ecology is poorly known for most species of Paraxerus.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.