Weiser, ID
How exposed is Weiser to wildfire?
USFS scores Weiser at the 89th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 3,365 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Weiser at the 91st national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Weiser's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 84.1% of Weiser's 3,365 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 12.5% Direct and 3.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Weiser compares
Weiser ranks lower within Idaho (64th percentile statewide) than its 89th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weiser ranks 3,468 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,965 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 85 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Weiser and the insurance market
Weiser's 89th-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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Weiser (84.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Weiser's 3,468-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Weiser, see the exposure-zones guide.