Basalt, ID
Basalt, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Basalt lands at the 36th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 220 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Basalt at the 30th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Basalt rates 55.5% Minimal exposure against just 44.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 220 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Basalt against the rest of the country
Basalt's 36th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 10th ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Basalt ranks 20,317 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,114 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 209 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Basalt and the insurance market
Basalt's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Basalt
Basalt's 55.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Basalt's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Basalt's 20,317-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Basalt's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.