Lapoint, UT
Lapoint, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lapoint's 123 buildings earn a 66th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lapoint's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
Where Lapoint's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 51.2% of Lapoint's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 48.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 63 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Lapoint compares
Lapoint's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 23rd ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lapoint ranks 10,828 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,041 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 251 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Lapoint and the insurance market
Lapoint's 66th-percentile, 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lapoint (51.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lapoint's 10,828-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lapoint, see the exposure-zones guide.