Roberts, ID
Roberts, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Roberts lands at the 49th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 249 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Roberts at the 46th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Roberts's buildings actually sit
Roberts rates 83.5% Minimal exposure against just 16.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 249 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Roberts ranks
Roberts ranks lower within Idaho (17th percentile statewide) than its 49th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roberts ranks 16,040 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,163 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 193 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Roberts
Roberts's elevated wildfire rating (49th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Roberts's 83.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Roberts's 16,040-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Roberts, see the exposure-zones guide.