Declo, ID
Declo wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Declo lands at the 47th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 195 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Declo at the 46th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Declo's building exposure, zone by zone
91.3% of Declo's 195 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Declo compares
Declo's 47th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Declo ranks 16,664 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,020 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 197 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Declo
Declo's elevated wildfire rating (47th 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
Declo's 91.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 195 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Declo. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Declo, see the exposure-zones guide.