Hauser, ID
Hauser wildfire risk explained
Hauser sits at the 64th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 471 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hauser at the 61st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Hauser's 471 counted buildings, 51.6% carry Direct exposure and only 2.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Hauser compares
Hauser's 64th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 31st 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, Hauser ranks 11,375 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,850 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 161 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Hauser and the insurance market
Hauser's high rating (64th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 51.6% of Hauser in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hauser's 11,375-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hauser, see the exposure-zones guide.