Homedale, ID
How exposed is Homedale to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Homedale at the 49th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,292 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Homedale at the 48th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Homedale's buildings actually sit
Homedale rates 84.3% Minimal exposure against just 15.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,292 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Homedale compares
Homedale's 49th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Homedale ranks 16,064 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,109 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 194 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 49th national percentile, Homedale rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 84.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Homedale 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Homedale's 16,064-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Homedale, see the exposure-zones guide.