Minidoka, ID
Minidoka, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Minidoka's 55 buildings earn a 42nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Minidoka at the 41st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Minidoka's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 87.3% of Minidoka's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Minidoka against the rest of the country
Minidoka ranks lower within Idaho (13th percentile statewide) than its 42nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Minidoka ranks 18,267 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,780 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 203 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Minidoka and the insurance market
Minidoka's elevated wildfire rating (42nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Minidoka's 87.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Minidoka's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Minidoka's 18,267-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Minidoka's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.