Mullan, ID
How exposed is Mullan to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mullan lands at the 83rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 587 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mullan's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 72.7% of Mullan's 587 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Mullan against the rest of the country
Mullan ranks lower within Idaho (53rd percentile statewide) than its 83rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mullan ranks 5,228 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,000 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 110 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mullan
Mullan's 83rd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72.7% of Mullan's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mullan's 5,228-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mullan, see the exposure-zones guide.