Laird, CO
Laird wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Laird at the 79th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 62 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Laird at the 76th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Laird's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Laird's buildings (59.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Laird against the rest of the country
Laird ranks lower within Colorado (53rd percentile statewide) than its 79th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Laird ranks 6,549 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,569 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 222 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Laird
Laird's high rating (79th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 59.7% of Laird's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Laird's 6,549-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Laird, see the exposure-zones guide.