Special Report

This Is the County in the Idaho Falls, ID Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: October 19, 2021 4:00 am

Following a months long surge driven by the delta variant, new daily cases of COVID-19 are falling once again in the United States. To date, there have been 44,408,600 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Idaho Falls metropolitan area, located in Idaho, a total of 22,983 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 16,076 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 13,574 cases per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Idaho Falls is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.

The broader Idaho Falls metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Bonneville County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 18,831 infections in Bonneville County, or 16,754 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Bonneville County than they are across all of the Idaho Falls area, however. There have been a total of 181 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Bonneville County, in line with 173 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Idaho Falls metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 15, 2021.

These are all the counties in Idaho where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).