East Hope, ID
East Hope wildfire risk explained
USFS scores East Hope at the 87th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 225 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Hope's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 81st percentile nationally.
East Hope's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of East Hope's buildings (69.3%) 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.
East Hope against the rest of the country
East Hope's 87th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 60th ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Hope ranks 4,163 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,937 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 93 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
East Hope's 87th-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 East Hope
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in East Hope (69.3% 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
East Hope's 87th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Hope, see the exposure-zones guide.