Mountain Home, City Of, ID
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Mountain Home, City Of at a glance
Mountain Home, City Of serves about 14,651 people through 5,842 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Elmore County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID4200032; phone on file: 208-587-2108. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mountain Home, City Of is 0 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Idaho systems
Of the 763 Idaho systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 46 have gone over at some point. Mountain Home, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 35th percentile in Idaho and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Elmore County
22 other systems share Elmore County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mountain Home, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home Air Force Base | 7,500 | 4 ppb |
| Glenns Ferry City Of | 1,282 | 0 (not detected) |
| Trinity Estates Water Users Assn | 250 | 7 ppb |
| Mellen Subd Water Dist | 250 | 5 ppb |
| Canyon Creek Mobile Home Park | 243 | 3 ppb |
| Summerwind Water Users | 192 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sawtooth Estates Water Users | 175 | 9 ppb |
| Blue Sage Subdivision | 112 | 0 (not detected) |
| Simplot Livestock Company Grandview | 100 | 2 ppb |
| Hamilton Place | 97 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Mountain Home, City Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Mountain Home, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.