Fairfield, ID
How exposed is Fairfield to wildfire?
Fairfield's 432 buildings earn a 38th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fairfield at the 36th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fairfield's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 71.3% of Fairfield's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 28.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Fairfield ranks
Inside Idaho, Fairfield sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 38th 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, Fairfield ranks 19,591 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,602 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 205 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Fairfield and the insurance market
At the 38th national percentile, Fairfield rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Fairfield's 71.3% 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
Fairfield's 38th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fairfield, see the exposure-zones guide.