Menan, ID
Menan, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Menan at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 429 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Menan at the 18th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Menan's buildings actually sit
Most of Menan's buildings (51.8% of 429) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Menan against the rest of the country
Inside Idaho, Menan sits at just the 4th percentile even though it scores 22nd 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, Menan ranks 24,606 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,669 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 222 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Menan and the insurance market
Menan's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Menan
Even with 51.8% of Menan 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.
Where Menan's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Menan's 24,606-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Menan's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.