Driggs, ID
Driggs, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Driggs sits at the 83rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,140 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Driggs at the 84th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Where Driggs's buildings actually sit
57% of Driggs's 1,140 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 650 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 43% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Driggs compares
Driggs's 83rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 52nd 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, Driggs ranks 5,323 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,013 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 113 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
Driggs's 83rd-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 Driggs
Driggs's 57% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Driggs's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Driggs, see the exposure-zones guide.