Nampa, ID
How exposed is Nampa to wildfire?
Nampa sits at the 65th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 36,616 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nampa at the 66th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Where Nampa's buildings actually sit
Most of Nampa's buildings (77.8% of 36,616) 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. At 36,616 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Nampa ranks
Nampa's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 32nd ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nampa ranks 11,020 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 284 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 159 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Nampa and the insurance market
At the 65th percentile nationally, Nampa 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
With 77.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Nampa gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nampa's 11,020-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Nampa, see the exposure-zones guide.