Wardner, ID
Wardner, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wardner lands at the 83rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 163 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wardner at the 75th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Where Wardner's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 93.9% of Wardner's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 6.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 153 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Wardner compares
Inside Idaho, Wardner sits at just the 52nd percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Wardner ranks 5,229 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,279 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 111 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Wardner and the insurance market
At the 83rd percentile nationally, Wardner carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Wardner's 93.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wardner's 5,229-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wardner, see the exposure-zones guide.