La Salle, MN
La Salle, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
La Salle's 77 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks La Salle at the 9th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where La Salle's buildings actually sit
Most of La Salle's buildings (93.5% of 77) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
La Salle against the rest of the country
La Salle's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (16th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (13th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Salle ranks 27,582 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,013 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 764 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Salle
At the 13th national percentile, La Salle rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 93.5% 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
La Salle's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond La Salle, see the exposure-zones guide.