Ucon, ID
Ucon wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Ucon at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 548 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ucon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
Ucon's building exposure, zone by zone
80.1% of Ucon's 548 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 19.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Ucon against the rest of the country
Inside Idaho, Ucon sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 26th 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, Ucon ranks 23,313 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,598 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 218 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
Ucon's moderate rating (26th 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 Ucon
Even with 80.1% of Ucon 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 548 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ucon. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ucon, see the exposure-zones guide.