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.
We 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.
FEMA NRI also rates La Paz County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Very High · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0007.
Sources: 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.
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Since 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.
FEMA’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.
The county record identifies Island (2026) as both the largest fire and the most recent large fire, at 3,145 acres.
Other named fires in and around La Paz County include Lost Lake (2022) and Island Lake (2013), both listed as partly in the county.
Additional named fires include Planet Ranch (2021), Clip (2021), Sourdough (2024), and Broadway (2025).
Fire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.
Perimeter 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.
Among 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.
Ehrenberg (48.2) and Salome (47.8) are on the higher side of the listed towns and villages, while Parker is lower at 41.0.
Parker Strip is 45.0, Brenda is 42.2, and Wenden is 43.6, showing that nearby communities can still differ by several points.
The 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.
Terrain-related wildfire risk ranges from 20.0 near Cibola to 65.0 near Brenda, with a county middle of 40.0.
Vegetation 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.
Hazard-zone scores run from 10.0 near Cibola to 46.9 near Wenden, with a middle value of 20.3.
Fire 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.
Fire 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.
Risk 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.
Most 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.
Each 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.
The 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.
| Layer | Min | Median | Max | Lowest place | Highest place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrain | 20 | 40 | 65 | near Cibola | near Brenda | 162 |
| Vegetation & fuels | 20 | 80 | 80 | Parker | unincorporated La Paz County | 163 |
| Hazard zone | 10 | 20.3 | 46.9 | near Cibola | near Wenden | 163 |
| Fire history | 5 | 5 | 95 | unincorporated La Paz County | near Parker | 163 |
| Composite | 29.7 | 42.8 | 65 | Wenden | Bouse | 163 |
Independently 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.
Source: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).
CAL 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.
163 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.
For 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.
That 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.
FEMA’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.
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Every 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.
Moderate 7 ZIPs
No sampled point inside 10 ZIPs
85320 Wenden · 85354 · 85360 · 85365 · 85371 Parker · 86406 Parker Strip · 92225 Ehrenberg · 92242 Bluewater · 92266 Cibola · 92267 Parker Strip
Grouped 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.
ZIP areas are Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas intersecting the county boundary.
No. Most scored locations are in the Moderate tier (144 points), with 19 in High and none in Very High.
7,932 acres have burned since 1984, which is 0.3% of La Paz County.
Island (2026) is the most recent large fire in the county record, and it is also listed as the largest, at 3,145 acres.
No. 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.
FEMA’s National Risk Index rates La Paz County’s wildfire risk as Relatively Low, and its wildfire expected annual loss as Relatively Low.
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