Yellow Pine, ID
Yellow Pine, ID's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Yellow Pine lands at the 99th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 139 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 Yellow Pine at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Yellow Pine's buildings actually sit
Of Yellow Pine's 139 counted buildings, 92.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Yellow Pine compares
There's little gap between Yellow Pine's 99th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Idaho, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yellow Pine ranks 259 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,319 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 3 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
At the 99th percentile nationally, Yellow Pine 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.
Hardening a home in Yellow Pine
Yellow Pine's 92.1% 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.
Where Yellow Pine's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Yellow Pine's 259-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Yellow Pine's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.