Hailey, ID
How exposed is Hailey to wildfire?
Hailey sits at the 85th 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 3,387 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hailey's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
3,387 buildings are counted in Hailey, and 83.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Hailey compares
Hailey's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 55th ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 29 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hailey ranks 4,851 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,932 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 104 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Hailey and the insurance market
At the 85th percentile nationally, Hailey carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 83.7% of Hailey's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hailey's 4,851-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hailey, see the exposure-zones guide.