Leadore, ID
Leadore, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Leadore lands at the 50th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 133 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Leadore at the 49th percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Leadore: 53.4% of its 133 buildings, versus 46.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Leadore against the rest of the country
Inside Idaho, Leadore sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 50th 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, Leadore ranks 15,749 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,570 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 192 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
Leadore's elevated rating (50th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Leadore's 53.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leadore's 15,749-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Leadore, see the exposure-zones guide.