Newdale, ID
How exposed is Newdale to wildfire?
Newdale's 195 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newdale at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Newdale's buildings actually sit
Newdale rates 80.5% Minimal exposure against just 19.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 195 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Newdale compares
Newdale scores 2nd nationally and 0th within Idaho — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newdale ranks 30,751 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,021 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 232 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Newdale and the insurance market
Newdale's low wildfire rating (2nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 80.5% of Newdale outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 195 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Newdale. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Newdale, see the exposure-zones guide.