Hope, ID
Hope wildfire risk explained
Hope's 84 buildings earn a 90th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hope at the 84th national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hope's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 54.8% of Hope's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 45.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 46 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Hope against the rest of the country
Hope's 90th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 65th ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hope ranks 3,309 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,719 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 82 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Hope and the insurance market
At the 90th percentile nationally, Hope 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Hope's 54.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 84 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hope. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hope, see the exposure-zones guide.