La Salle, CO
How exposed is La Salle to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, La Salle lands at the 49th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,109 buildings, not the land around them. (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 Salle at the 50th percentile, close to its 49th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 10.6% of La Salle's 1,109 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How La Salle compares
La Salle's 49th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 16th ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Salle ranks 16,191 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 399 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Salle
La Salle's elevated wildfire rating (49th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 89.4% of La Salle outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,109 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for La Salle. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond La Salle, see the exposure-zones guide.