New Meadows, ID
How exposed is New Meadows to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Meadows at the 96th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 426 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Meadows at the 98th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Where New Meadows's buildings actually sit
426 buildings are counted in New Meadows, and 78.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 21.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where New Meadows ranks
New Meadows's risk sits at a similar level relative to Idaho (83rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (96th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Meadows ranks 1,233 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,727 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 41 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Meadows
At the 96th percentile nationally, New Meadows carries the very 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.
Hardening a home in New Meadows
Because 78.4% of New Meadows'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.
Where New Meadows's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 426 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for New Meadows. The exposure-zones guide covers what New Meadows's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.