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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in La Paz County, Arizona 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in La Paz County spans a moderate-to-high range across the places we scored. Countywide, scores run from 29.7 to 65.0, with a middle value of 42.8.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[Arizona](/wildfire-risk/arizona/)›La Paz County\n\nLa Paz County, Arizona\n\n# Wildfire risk in La Paz County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in La Paz County spans a moderate-to-high range across the places we scored. Countywide, scores run from 29.7 to 65.0, with a middle value of 42.8.\n\n[Score my La Paz County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nLa Paz County — the largest fires on record, at their perimeter centres, with the county’s main communities. Select a marker for its detail.\n\nAt a glance\n\n## Half of La Paz County scores _Moderate_ or worse\n\nWe scored 163 points across La Paz County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 12% of them come out High, while 88% are Moderate. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n12%\n\n88%\n\n**High** 12% · 19 of 163 points **Moderate** 88% · 144 of 163 points\n\nSafest end we measured 29.7 near Wenden · Moderate\n\nMiddle of the county 42.8 Moderate — half of La Paz County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 65 near Bouse · High\n\n### And the federal models agree it is a fire county\n\nRelatively Low FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 70.2 / 100\n\n$94k / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively Low\n\n0.05% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 0.11%\n\n2.4 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 99% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates La Paz County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Very High · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0007.\n\nSources: FEMA National Risk Index 1.20.0 (Dec 2025), county record · USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0, mean of the grid cells inside the county. Both describe the county as a whole, never an address in it.\n\nWhat does your La Paz County address score?\n\nA county range shows the spread. Your parcel sits somewhere inside it — the report says where, and what to do about it.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nLocal context\n\n## What the data says about _La Paz County_\n\nSince 1984, 7,932 acres have burned within county fire perimeters, and that equals 0.3% of the county. The record also shows 26 fire perimeters since 1984.\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates La Paz County’s wildfire risk as Relatively Low and its wildfire expected annual loss as Relatively Low. In the same FEMA index, the county’s all-hazards risk is Relatively Moderate.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nThe county record identifies Island (2026) as both the largest fire and the most recent large fire, at 3,145 acres.\n\nOther named fires in and around La Paz County include Lost Lake (2022) and Island Lake (2013), both listed as partly in the county.\n\nAdditional named fires include Planet Ranch (2021), Clip (2021), Sourdough (2024), and Broadway (2025).\n\n26 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n7,932 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n0.3% of the county's area, as a share of 11,638.8 km²\n\nIsland 2026 most recent large fire on record\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020s \n\nFire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.\n\nNamed fires on record\n\n-   **Island Fire**20263,145 acres\n-   **Island Lake Fire**20132,109 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Planet Ranch Fire**20211,259 acres\n-   **Lost Lake Fire**20225,857 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Broadway Fire**2025841 acres\n-   **Mohave Fire**2018924 acres\n-   **Sourdough Fire**2024716 acres\n-   **Clip Fire**20211,068 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Island 2026. Perimeters are simplified for display; acreage is the figure the source records.\n\nCommunities\n\n## Where in the county you are _matters most_\n\nAmong listed communities, Bluewater has one of the higher typical wildfire risk scores at 62.3, while Cienega Springs is lower at 35.0 and Quartzsite is 37.9.\n\nEhrenberg (48.2) and Salome (47.8) are on the higher side of the listed towns and villages, while Parker is lower at 41.0.\n\nParker Strip is 45.0, Brenda is 42.2, and Wenden is 43.6, showing that nearby communities can still differ by several points.\n\nBluewater village · 682 people\n\n62.3 _High_\n\nEhrenberg village · 763 people\n\n48.2 _Moderate_\n\nSalome village · 1,162 people\n\n47.8 _Moderate_\n\nParker Strip village · 621 people\n\n45 _Moderate_\n\nWenden village · 458 people\n\n43.6 _Moderate_\n\nBrenda village · 466 people\n\n42.2 _Moderate_\n\nCibola village · 198 people\n\n42.1 _Moderate_\n\nVicksburg village · 418 people\n\n41.9 _Moderate_\n\nParker town · 3,200 people\n\n41 _Moderate_\n\nQuartzsite town · 2,413 people\n\n37.9 _Moderate_\n\n3 more communities in La Paz County\n\nLa Paz Valley village · 368 people\n\n36.1 _Moderate_\n\nBouse village · 707 people\n\n35.5 _Moderate_\n\nCienega Springs village · 1,690 people\n\n35 _Moderate_\n\nThe score is the median of the sampled points nearest that community — a community-scale indicator, not a score for any individual property in it. Population comes from the community's own record where the source carries one.\n\nTerrain & fuels\n\n## Terrain, vegetation and _fuels_\n\nTerrain-related wildfire risk ranges from 20.0 near Cibola to 65.0 near Brenda, with a county middle of 40.0.\n\nVegetation and fuels are high in many scored places: the middle value is 80.0, with 80.0 in unincorporated La Paz County and 20.0 at Parker.\n\nHazard-zone scores run from 10.0 near Cibola to 46.9 near Wenden, with a middle value of 20.3.\n\nFire weather was not measured for this county in the places we scored. What is measured here also includes fire history, which is 95.0 near Parker and 5.0 in unincorporated La Paz County.\n\n40 median terrain score (max 65 near Brenda)\n\n80 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near unincorporated La Paz County)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _La Paz County_\n\nFire weather was not measured at the sampled points in La Paz County. The other four indicators on this page were, and the bars below show what they found.\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nRisk is not uniform from one part of the county to another. The lowest scored location is in Wenden at 29.7, while the highest is in Bouse at 65.0; the county middle is 42.8.\n\nMost scored locations fall in the Moderate tier: 144 points are Moderate and 19 are High. No scored points fall in the Very High or Low tiers.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across La Paz County, on the same 0–100 scale. A long bar is a part of the risk that depends on where you are; a short one is the same almost everywhere.\n\nTerrain\n\n20–65 highest near Brenda\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20–80 highest near unincorporated La Paz County\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–46.9 highest near Wenden\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Parker\n\nOverall score\n\n29.7–65 highest near Bouse\n\nThe tick on each bar is the middle value. Tier boundaries — Moderate at 25, High at 50, Very High at 75 — are the faint lines behind them.\n\nShow every number behind these bars\n\nLayer\n\nMin\n\nMedian\n\nMax\n\nLowest place\n\nHighest place\n\nPoints\n\nTerrain\n\n20\n\n40\n\n65\n\nnear Cibola\n\nnear Brenda\n\n162\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20\n\n80\n\n80\n\nParker\n\nunincorporated La Paz County\n\n163\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n20.3\n\n46.9\n\nnear Cibola\n\nnear Wenden\n\n163\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n5\n\n95\n\nunincorporated La Paz County\n\nnear Parker\n\n163\n\nComposite\n\n29.7\n\n42.8\n\n65\n\nWenden\n\nBouse\n\n163\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.05%** (90th percentile cell: **0.11%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **2.4 ft**. **99%** of the 25,184 grid cells inside the county carry burnable fuel at all.\n\nSource: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).\n\nCAL FIRE has no mapped Fire Hazard Severity Zone at **163** of the 163 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas, and most of this county is state or federal land. At **118** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead; at the remaining 45 the hazard weight is renormalised away rather than scored as low.\n\n163 sample points on a ~2.3 km grid, plus one at the centre of each community, weighted with the Satelife county profile v1 · median layer coverage 90%. Scores are 0–100 and comparable within the county, not across states.\n\nFor a property\n\n## What a county range means for _one address_\n\nFor countywide burn likelihood context, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities product lists mean annual burn probability as 0.05 and the 90th-percentile cell as 0.11. It also indicates that 98.5% of the county can burn.\n\nThat same USFS product lists mean conditional flame length at 2.4 feet. Use this as county context, alongside the local score at the exact property location.\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index also gives county context beyond wildfire behavior: social vulnerability is rated Very High and community resilience is rated Very Low for La Paz County.\n\nAcross 163 sampled points in La Paz County, the score runs from 29.7 to 65 — two neighbouring parcels can sit in different tiers. A county number is the middle of that spread; it says nothing about which end yours is at.\n\nFind out where your La Paz County parcel sits\n\nSlope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nCoverage\n\n## ZIP codes we cover in La Paz County\n\nEvery one of the 17 ZIP areas that touch La Paz County — we run address-level reports in all of them. They are grouped by the median score of the points we sampled inside each, which is a neighbourhood-scale indicator and **not** a score for any property: two homes in the same ZIP routinely land in different tiers.\n\n**Moderate** 7 ZIPs\n\n-   [85328 Cibola47](/wildfire-risk/zip/85328/)\n-   [85357 Wenden46](/wildfire-risk/zip/85357/)\n-   [85348 Vicksburg45](/wildfire-risk/zip/85348/)\n-   [85334 Ehrenberg45](/wildfire-risk/zip/85334/)\n-   [85325 Bouse43](/wildfire-risk/zip/85325/)\n-   [85344 Parker39](/wildfire-risk/zip/85344/)\n-   [85346 Quartzsite37](/wildfire-risk/zip/85346/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 10 ZIPs\n\n[85320 Wenden](/wildfire-risk/zip/85320/) · [85354](/wildfire-risk/zip/85354/) · [85360](/wildfire-risk/zip/85360/) · [85365](/wildfire-risk/zip/85365/) · [85371 Parker](/wildfire-risk/zip/85371/) · [86406 Parker Strip](/wildfire-risk/zip/86406/) · [92225 Ehrenberg](/wildfire-risk/zip/92225/) · [92242 Bluewater](/wildfire-risk/zip/92242/) · [92266 Cibola](/wildfire-risk/zip/92266/) · [92267 Parker Strip](/wildfire-risk/zip/92267/)\n\nGrouped from 7 of 17 ZIP areas — the rest had no sample point fall inside them. The community shown is the nearest mapped place to the ZIP's centre.\n\nZIP areas are Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas intersecting the county boundary.\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## La Paz County wildfire risk _in context_\n\n[Arizona wildfire risk The statewide picture and every county page we publish](/wildfire-risk/arizona/) [Wildfire risk by state Every state and county we cover](/wildfire-risk/) [How Satelife calculates wildfire risk Data sources, layers, score composition, honest limits](/wildfire-risk/methodology/) [Create a wildfire evacuation plan Zones, egress routes, refuge areas](/wildfire-evacuation-plan/) [Run a report for a La Paz County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _La Paz County wildfire risk_\n\nIs most of La Paz County in the highest wildfire tier?\n\nNo. Most scored locations are in the Moderate tier (144 points), with 19 in High and none in Very High.\n\nHow much of the county has burned since 1984?\n\n7,932 acres have burned since 1984, which is 0.3% of La Paz County.\n\nWhat is the latest large fire in this county record?\n\nIsland (2026) is the most recent large fire in the county record, and it is also listed as the largest, at 3,145 acres.\n\nDid you measure fire weather across La Paz County?\n\nNo. Fire weather was not measured for this county in the places we scored. The page does include other wildfire risk factors such as terrain, vegetation and fuels, hazard zone, and fire history.\n\nWhat does FEMA say about county wildfire risk?\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates La Paz County’s wildfire risk as Relatively Low, and its wildfire expected annual loss as Relatively Low.\n\nThis page is generated from a La Paz County data pack assembled on 2026-09-05 (pack v1.0). Scores are sampled across the county, not measured at any individual address, and are informational decision support — not a substitute for official evacuation orders, a fire-agency hazard determination, or an insurer's underwriting judgement. Data versions: fema\\_nri 1.20.0 (Dec 2025) · landfire per adapter · nifc\\_history All Years View · wfigs current · wrc v2.0 (2024) · zcta Census 2020.\n\n## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer?\n\nA county range shows the spread. An address-level Satelife report shows where in that spread your property actually sits — PDF, per-layer score, and a prioritized mitigation plan.\n\n[Start with your address →](/#cta)\n\n[![PRR](/images/prr.png)](/ficha-de-website-voucher-satelife.pdf)\n\n© 2024–2026 Satelife, Lda. All rights reserved.\n\nSatelife reports are for informational purposes only and do not constitute insurance, financial, or legal advice."
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