La Verkin, UT
La Verkin, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
La Verkin's 1,641 buildings earn a 95th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (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 Verkin at the 92nd percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Where La Verkin's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 74.9% of La Verkin's 1,641 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 25.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where La Verkin ranks
Inside Utah, La Verkin sits at just the 78th percentile even though it scores 95th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Verkin ranks 1,748 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,615 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 73 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
La Verkin and the insurance market
La Verkin's 95th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in La Verkin (74.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Verkin's 1,748-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond La Verkin, see the exposure-zones guide.