Benewah County, ID Shrink-Swell Risk

Benewah County's SSURGO shrink-swell reading

Low

In Benewah County, ID, 97.3% of the surveyed soil carries a "Low" shrink-swell rating, 1.56% linear extensibility on average. That's the easiest starting point on this site's scale - a standard foundation is the reasonable default here, though any one lot can still differ.

Before you rely on this for one address

Benewah County's reading is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A site-specific soil report, usually $1,000-$5,000, is what an engineer would actually pull before designing a foundation on a lot in Benewah County.

Budgeting for Benewah County, ID

Benewah County's soil reading points toward standard foundation practice as the likely outcome, not the exception. A geotechnical report runs $1,000-$5,000, typically around $2,700. Foundation repair, if a specific lot turns out to differ from the county average, runs $5,000-$15,000.

How Benewah County, ID compares

Among the 3,085 rated counties on this site, Benewah County, ID ranks 2,435 most-constrained nationally, and 38 of 44 within Idaho. Benewah County covers 777 square miles and counts 10,529 residents.

Before you act on this

Orleans Parish, LA carries this site's most-constrained reading. Woods County, OK and Kent County, MI are worth a look for comparison.

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Elsewhere in Idaho

Every county in Idaho is on this site, including Kootenai County, ID and Valley County, ID. The full underlying dataset is downloadable directly, one row per county.