Blackfoot, ID
Blackfoot, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blackfoot at the 73rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 4,971 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Blackfoot's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 68th percentile nationally.
Where Blackfoot's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 88% of Blackfoot's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Blackfoot against the rest of the country
Blackfoot's 73rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 39th ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blackfoot ranks 8,631 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,444 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 141 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Blackfoot's 73rd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 88% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Blackfoot 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,971 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blackfoot. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blackfoot, see the exposure-zones guide.