Castleford, ID
Castleford wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Castleford at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 162 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Castleford at the 28th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Castleford rates 98.2% Minimal exposure against just 1.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 162 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Castleford ranks
Inside Idaho, Castleford sits at just the 7th percentile even though it scores 30th 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, Castleford ranks 21,956 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,325 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 215 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
At the 30th national percentile, Castleford rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Castleford
Castleford's 98.2% 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 Castleford's figures come from
Castleford's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Castleford's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.