Burley, ID
Burley, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Burley's 4,566 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Burley at the 28th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Burley's building exposure, zone by zone
Burley rates 97% Minimal exposure against just 3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,566 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Burley against the rest of the country
Inside Idaho, Burley sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 31st 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, Burley ranks 21,767 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,736 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 214 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Burley and the insurance market
Burley's moderate wildfire rating (31st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 97% of Burley outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Burley's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,566 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Burley. The exposure-zones guide covers what Burley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.