Orofino, ID
Orofino wildfire risk explained
Orofino sits at the 99th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,692 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Orofino's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 99th percentile nationally.
Where Orofino's buildings actually sit
1,692 buildings are counted in Orofino, and 74.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Orofino compares
There's little gap between Orofino's 99th national percentile and its 95th percentile inside Idaho, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orofino ranks 446 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,448 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 14 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
Orofino's 99th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Orofino (74.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,692 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Orofino. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Orofino, see the exposure-zones guide.