Kellogg, ID
Kellogg wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kellogg at the 79th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,486 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kellogg at the 69th national percentile — 10 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
Indirect exposure is dominant in Kellogg (95.3% of 1,486 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 4.7% sit in the Direct zone.
How Kellogg compares
Kellogg's 79th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 46th 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, Kellogg ranks 6,680 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 125 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Kellogg and the insurance market
Kellogg's high rating (79th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kellogg (95.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Kellogg's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kellogg, see the exposure-zones guide.