For Boise City, ID, distress is mixed but skewed toward the lender side. Of the six paired readings, three are quiet on both legs and three disagree, with zero pairs elevated on both sides.
The bank CRE leg is the only elevated signal: $495.9 million of bank CRE sits over the noncurrent line, a 9.22% rate, ranking 64th of 393 metros by count and 75th by rate. The other three legs are quiet — store closures sit at 3 closures (0.89 per 100k jobs, rank 128th of 392), WARN notices at 4 notices (0.08% of employment, rank 113th of 386), and securitized loans in special servicing at 0 rows (0.0%, rank 220th of 335).
The three disagreements all share one pattern: bank stress without a visible tenant or employment cause. The reading across pairs is "bank stress without a visible tenant cause — look for construction or a rate reset, not vacancy," "lender stress with no employment event behind it," and "the lenders here are stressed on a book the tape cannot see." This suggests the distress is on the lending side, not the property or labor side — possibly a book of loans allocated here by branch deposits rather than one located at the buildings themselves.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
3 closures | 0.89 per 100k jobs | 128 of 392 | 274 of 392 | quiet trailing 365 days to today
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| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
4 notices | 0.08% | 113 of 386 | 180 of 386 | quiet trailing 365 days to today
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| bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line share of the CRE lent into this metro that sits at a lender over the blended-noncurrent line |
$495.9mm | 9.22% | 64 of 393 | 75 of 393 | elevated
allocated 2026-03-31
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| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
0 loan records | 0% | 220 of 335 | 220 of 335 | quiet 2026-07-29
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In Boise City, ID, the elevated distress signal is bank_distressed_cre, with distressed lender CRE at $495.9mm and bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile reaching 21.1%. However, the reading is unavailable for other key signals: the CMBS special servicing UPB is $0.0mm (with a 0.0% share of metro UPB), and the bank allocation exact share is 0.0% of $5.38bn in bank CRE. The overall phase is "watch," described as "an isolated signal, not a convergence," with materiality deemed "immaterial" — "little to no distressed CRE dollars behind the signals."
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D. L. Evans Bank ID | 30.3% | 130% total 245%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Idaho First Bank ID | 73.5% | 169% total 241%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Washington Trust Bank WA | 11.4% | 216% total 310%
|
🔒 | 0.50% |
| Northwest Bank ID | 32.6% | 177% total 224%
|
🔒 | 5.26% |
| Banner Bank WA | 2.4% | 253% total 379%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| First Federal Savings Bank Of Twin Falls ID | 11.9% | 190% total 272%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Heritage Bank WA | 0.3% | 295% total 432%
|
🔒 | 0.20% |
| Sunwest Bank UT | 9.5% | 327% total 467%
|
🔒 | 0.49% |
| Bell Bank ND | 0.0% | 270% total 333%
|
🔒 | 0.29% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Bank | $527M | 177% total 224%
|
5.26% | 🔒 |
| Idaho Trust Bank | $79M | 204% total 276%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
Boise City is in a slack capacity position, with a maturing CMBS wall of $91.4mm against regional/community bank room of $377.1mm after committed draws, producing a wall-to-room ratio of 0.24 — just above the median 0.20, ranking 125 of 270 from the most strained, though the distressed share reading is 0.0%. While banks here could absorb the wall with slack to spare, that ratio partly reflects an exclusion artifact: with 9 banks qualifying against 7 excluded, the capacity reading is driven by deposit footprint rather than total credit supply, and the CMBS wall itself may understate the metro’s full maturity load, so the metric is an upper bound on local bank absorption rather than a definitive answer.
In the past 365 days, Boise City, ID has seen store closures of 3 and warn notices of 3, affecting 146 jobs, with 0 CRE bankruptcies reported in the state proxy during that window.