Lava Hot Springs, ID
How exposed is Lava Hot Springs to wildfire?
Lava Hot Springs's 372 buildings earn a 99th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lava Hot Springs at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Lava Hot Springs's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Lava Hot Springs (78.2% of 372 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 21.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Lava Hot Springs against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Lava Hot Springs's 99th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside Idaho, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lava Hot Springs ranks 288 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,819 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 4 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Lava Hot Springs and the insurance market
Lava Hot Springs's very high rating (99th 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.
Hardening a home in Lava Hot Springs
Lava Hot Springs's 78.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lava Hot Springs's 288-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lava Hot Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.