Stites, ID
Stites, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Stites at the 98th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 161 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Stites's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 99th percentile nationally.
Where Stites's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Stites (83.9% of 161 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 16.2% sit in the Direct zone.
How Stites compares
Stites scores 98th nationally and 88th within Idaho — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stites ranks 723 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,374 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 29 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Stites and the insurance market
Stites's 98th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 83.9% of Stites's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Stites's 723-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Stites, see the exposure-zones guide.