Grand View, ID
Grand View wildfire risk explained
Grand View's 284 buildings earn a 77th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Grand View at the 76th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
Where Grand View's buildings actually sit
284 buildings are counted in Grand View, and 63.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 33.5% in Direct exposure or the 2.8% rated Minimal.
Where Grand View ranks
Grand View's 77th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 44th ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grand View ranks 7,277 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,052 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 130 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Grand View
Grand View's 77th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Grand View's 63.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 284 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grand View. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Grand View, see the exposure-zones guide.