Idaho Falls, ID
Idaho Falls wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Idaho Falls at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 24,895 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Idaho Falls's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
Idaho Falls's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 93% of Idaho Falls's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 24,895 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Idaho Falls against the rest of the country
Inside Idaho, Idaho Falls sits at just the 9th percentile even though it scores 34th 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, Idaho Falls ranks 20,663 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 513 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 211 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Idaho Falls
At the 34th national percentile, Idaho Falls rates moderate 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 Idaho Falls
Even with 93% of Idaho Falls outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Idaho Falls's 34th-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 Idaho Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.