Paris, ID
How exposed is Paris to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Paris at the 83rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 582 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Paris's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Where Paris's buildings actually sit
Of Paris's 582 counted buildings, 78.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Paris against the rest of the country
Inside Idaho, Paris sits at just the 51st percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Paris ranks 5,387 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,075 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 114 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Paris and the insurance market
At the 83rd percentile nationally, Paris 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Paris (78.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Paris's 5,387-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Paris, see the exposure-zones guide.