La Conner, WA
La Conner, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Conner at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 608 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts La Conner at the 11th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
97% of La Conner's 608 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 2% Direct and 1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where La Conner ranks
La Conner scores 14th nationally and 16th within Washington — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Conner ranks 27,217 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,722 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 525 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
La Conner and the insurance market
La Conner's low wildfire rating (14th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in La Conner (97% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
La Conner's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond La Conner, see the exposure-zones guide.