Idaho probate leads and inheritance data, by county.
If you are researching Idaho probate leads, the public court file is only one part of the inherited-property market. USLeadList starts with death and property records, typically about five weeks after death, and generates an average of 539 records a month across Idaho.
Idaho counties
Browse 44 counties.Every Idaho county has its own page. Highlighted counties currently generate the largest monthly record volume.
How inherited property moves in Idaho
Verified state rules behind the county data.Probate rules matter because they determine when a public court record appears and which inherited properties never appear in an ordinary probate case.
What changes for an heir
Idaho reassesses all real property to current market value every year rather than on transfer, so inheriting a house does not itself reset its taxable value, and there is no inheritance or gift tax while the estate tax expired for deaths after 2004 (Idaho State Tax Commission). The one death-linked cost is the homeowner's exemption, which removes the lesser of $125,000 or 50 percent of market value from an owner-occupied home (Idaho Code 63-602G(1)). Under 63-602G(9) that exemption survives the owner's death only for the year of death and the following tax year, and only while the homestead remains part of the estate; after that the new owner must reapply and must occupy the home. An heir who does not move in loses it, which is the ordinary non-occupant rule rather than a transfer penalty.
Where probate records appear
District Court, Magistrate Division iCourt Portal, the Idaho judiciary's statewide public search of district and magistrate cases
Ways property can avoid ordinary probate
Idaho has no transfer on death deed for real property. Title 15, chapter 6, the nonprobate transfers chapter, contains only multiple-party accounts, provisions on the effect of death, the Uniform TOD Security Registration Act and community property right of survivorship. Senate Bill 1399 of the 2026 session would have adopted the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act but was referred to Judiciary and Rules on March 18, 2026 and was not enacted. Real property therefore passes outside probate through community property with right of survivorship (Idaho Code 15-6-401), joint tenancy, or a revocable living trust; personal property may be collected by small estate affidavit.
Small-estate route
Affidavit for collection of personal property where the fair market value of the entire estate subject to probate, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $100,000, available 30 days after death (Idaho Code 15-3-1201; figure set by 2006 amendments and not inflation adjusted). The affidavit reaches tangible personal property and instruments evidencing a debt, obligation, stock or chose in action, and cannot transfer real property. Summary administration is available where the surviving spouse is the sole heir or devisee (15-3-1205), and where the estate does not exceed the homestead allowance, exempt property, costs of administration, funeral expenses and last illness expenses (15-3-1203).
Timing investors should understand
The personal representative publishes notice to creditors once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and claims not presented within four months after the date of first publication are forever barred; a creditor given written notice has the later of that four months or 60 days after the notice was mailed or delivered (Idaho Code 15-3-801). The small estate affidavit may not be used until 30 days after death (15-3-1201). No Idaho judiciary source publishes a typical duration.
Idaho inheritance volume
Updated monthly · September 2026 edition.Newly inherited residential properties recorded in Idaho, from the same database that builds the lists. Published nationally in the Inheritance Property Index.
Biggest Idaho counties by volume
- Ada 1,392
- Canyon 824
- Kootenai 587
- Bonneville 505
- Twin Falls 376
- Bannock 373
- Bonner 247
- Bingham 225
Free to cite with attribution: USLeadList Inheritance Property Index, September 2026 edition. See every state and download the data.
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