Culdesac, ID
Culdesac, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Culdesac's 245 buildings earn a 82nd-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, Culdesac's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 81st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
245 buildings are counted in Culdesac, and 92.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 7.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Culdesac against the rest of the country
Inside Idaho, Culdesac sits at just the 49th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Culdesac ranks 5,671 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,287 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 118 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Culdesac and the insurance market
Culdesac's 82nd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 92.7% of Culdesac'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Culdesac's 5,671-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Culdesac, see the exposure-zones guide.