Kendrick, ID
How exposed is Kendrick to wildfire?
USFS scores Kendrick at the 92nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 257 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kendrick at the 92nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kendrick's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 81.7% of Kendrick's 257 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Kendrick compares
Kendrick's 92nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 71st ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kendrick ranks 2,487 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,912 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 69 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
Kendrick's 92nd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Kendrick
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kendrick (81.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 257 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kendrick. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kendrick, see the exposure-zones guide.