Boise City, ID
How exposed is Boise City to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Boise City lands at the 98th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 93,704 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Boise City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
Boise City's building exposure, zone by zone
Boise City rates 59.2% Minimal exposure against just 14.8% Direct and 26% Indirect — of 93,704 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 93,704 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Boise City compares
Boise City scores 98th nationally and 87th within Idaho — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boise City ranks 785 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 72 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 30 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Boise City and the insurance market
Boise City's 98th-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 Boise City
With 59.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Boise City 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 93,704 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Boise City. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Boise City, see the exposure-zones guide.