Post Falls, ID
Post Falls, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Post Falls sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 13,285 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Post Falls's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 57th percentile nationally.
Where Post Falls's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 60.7% of Post Falls's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.7% Direct and 28.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 13,285 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Post Falls compares
Post Falls's 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 28th ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 34 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Post Falls ranks 12,161 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,146 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 168 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
At the 61st percentile nationally, Post Falls carries the 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 Post Falls
With 60.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Post Falls gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Post Falls's 12,161-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Post Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.