Sinkhole risk in Benewah County, ID: No soluble rock mapped

No soluble rock mapped

No soluble bedrock mapped.

On soluble rock: 0%
At or near the surface: 0%
Buried under cover: 0%

The next step for one property

No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.

Across 777 square miles, under one square mile of Benewah County maps onto soluble rock. With about 10,529 residents (14 per square mile), much of the land is open, and the mapped rock may sit far from where people actually live. The figures come from 349 map points about 1.5 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Two things to read before deciding: how these percentages are measured, and the warning signs that apply anywhere.

Counties around Benewah County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Emery County, UT, about 640 miles southeast. 5 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Latah County, ID 28 mi south · 0% at surface
Kootenai County, ID 32 mi north · 0% at surface
Shoshone County, ID 36 mi east · under 1% at surface
Spokane County, WA 45 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Whitman County, WA 48 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Clearwater County, ID 60 mi southeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Idaho

Benewah County ranks 28 of 44 in Idaho for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.