Council, ID
Council wildfire risk explained
Council's 705 buildings earn a 97th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Council at the 98th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Where Council's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Council (82.7% of 705 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 17.3% sit in the Direct zone.
Council against the rest of the country
Council scores 97th nationally and 86th 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, Council ranks 882 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,600 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 33 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Council
Council's very high rating (97th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 82.7% of Council's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Council's 97th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Council, see the exposure-zones guide.