Tetonia, ID
Tetonia, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Tetonia sits at the 82nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 226 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tetonia at the 82nd percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Tetonia: 53.5% of its 226 buildings, versus 43.8% Indirect and 2.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Tetonia compares
Inside Idaho, Tetonia sits at just the 49th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Tetonia ranks 5,766 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,908 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 120 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
Tetonia's 82nd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 53.5% of Tetonia in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 226 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tetonia. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tetonia, see the exposure-zones guide.