Crouch, ID
Crouch wildfire risk explained
Crouch's 171 buildings earn a 98th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Crouch's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 71.9% of Crouch's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 28.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 123 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Crouch compares
Crouch scores 98th nationally and 90th 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, Crouch ranks 664 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,977 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 24 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
Crouch'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 Crouch
With 71.9% of Crouch in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crouch's 664-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Crouch, see the exposure-zones guide.