Pierce, ID
Pierce wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pierce at the 93rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 459 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 Pierce at the 91st percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Pierce's building exposure, zone by zone
459 buildings are counted in Pierce, and 54.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 45.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Pierce compares
Inside Idaho, Pierce sits at just the 71st percentile even though it scores 93rd 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, Pierce ranks 2,292 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,074 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 66 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pierce
Pierce's very high rating (93rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pierce (54.7% 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
Pierce's 93rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pierce, see the exposure-zones guide.