Weston, ID
How exposed is Weston to wildfire?
Weston's 318 buildings earn a 82nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Weston at the 83rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Weston's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 65.7% of Weston's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 34.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 209 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Weston compares
Weston ranks lower within Idaho (49th percentile statewide) than its 82nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weston ranks 5,672 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,145 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 119 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Weston
Weston'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.
Hardening a home in Weston
Weston's 65.7% 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
Weston's 82nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Weston, see the exposure-zones guide.