Dubois, ID
Dubois, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dubois at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 404 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dubois at the 94th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Dubois's buildings actually sit
Most of Dubois's buildings (72%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Dubois ranks
Dubois scores 95th nationally and 81st 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, Dubois ranks 1,478 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,134 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 45 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
Dubois's 95th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Dubois (72% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 404 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dubois. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dubois, see the exposure-zones guide.