WildfireRiskFinder

Moyie Springs, ID

Moyie Springs, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

High
74thpercentile nationally

Moyie Springs's 518 buildings earn a 74th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Moyie Springs at the 71st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.

Where Moyie Springs's buildings actually sit

518Total buildings
70.3%Direct exposure
29.7%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

Direct exposure dominates in Moyie Springs: 70.3% of its 518 buildings, versus 29.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.

How Moyie Springs compares

Inside Idaho, Moyie Springs sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 74th 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, Moyie Springs ranks 8,188 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,051 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 139 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Moyie Springs

Moyie Springs's high rating (74th 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 Moyie Springs

With 70.3% of Moyie Springs in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.

More on how this number was built

Every one of the two percentiles behind Moyie Springs's 8,188-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Moyie Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.