Rupert, ID
How exposed is Rupert to wildfire?
USFS scores Rupert at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,616 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rupert at the 21st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rupert's building exposure, zone by zone
Rupert rates 97.1% Minimal exposure against just 2.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,616 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Rupert compares
Inside Idaho, Rupert sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 23rd 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, Rupert ranks 24,414 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,073 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 221 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rupert
Rupert's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Rupert's 97.1% 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 Rupert's 24,414-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rupert, see the exposure-zones guide.