Bliss, ID
Bliss wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bliss at the 99th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 171 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bliss at the 100th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Bliss's buildings (58.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Bliss compares
Bliss's risk sits at a similar level relative to Idaho (100th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bliss ranks 229 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,976 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 2 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
Bliss's 99th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Bliss
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Bliss (58.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bliss's 229-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bliss, see the exposure-zones guide.