Murtaugh, ID
Murtaugh, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Murtaugh's 106 buildings earn a 67th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Murtaugh at the 63rd percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Murtaugh's buildings (85.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Murtaugh compares
Inside Idaho, Murtaugh sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 67th 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, Murtaugh ranks 10,426 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,762 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 156 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
At the 67th percentile nationally, Murtaugh carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 85.9% of Murtaugh'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
Murtaugh's 67th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Murtaugh, see the exposure-zones guide.