Rexburg, ID
Rexburg, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rexburg's 4,927 buildings earn a 33rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rexburg at the 27th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Rexburg's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 90.9% of Rexburg's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Rexburg compares
Inside Idaho, Rexburg sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 33rd 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, Rexburg ranks 21,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,469 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 213 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
Rexburg's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Rexburg
Even with 90.9% of Rexburg 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rexburg's 21,199-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rexburg, see the exposure-zones guide.