Ammon, ID
Ammon wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Ammon at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 5,288 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ammon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Ammon's building exposure, zone by zone
Ammon rates 70.5% Minimal exposure against just 24.8% Direct and 4.7% Indirect — of 5,288 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,288 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Ammon ranks
Inside Idaho, Ammon sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 88th 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, Ammon ranks 3,844 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,261 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 89 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Ammon and the insurance market
At the 88th percentile nationally, Ammon carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 70.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ammon gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ammon's 3,844-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ammon, see the exposure-zones guide.