Hayden, ID
How exposed is Hayden to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hayden lands at the 47th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 7,166 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hayden at the 44th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Where Hayden's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 72.2% of Hayden's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.8% Direct and 12.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 7,166 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Hayden ranks
Inside Idaho, Hayden sits at just the 15th percentile even though it scores 47th 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, Hayden ranks 16,665 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,390 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 198 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Hayden and the insurance market
At the 47th national percentile, Hayden rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Hayden
With 72.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Hayden gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Hayden's 47th-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 Hayden, see the exposure-zones guide.