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How many spam calls do people in Idaho report? They filed 665 FCC complaints in 12 months, 25th most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Idaho filed 665 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 32.8 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 25th among the 50 states and DC. 28% of the 665 complaints were about text messages, against 15% across the country.
- 665unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Idaho, October 2025 to September 2026
- 32.8complaints for every 100,000 residents, 25th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 208the area code people there named most, on 71 complaints (Idaho)
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025. All sources.
People in Idaho reported area code 208 most, and 1 of the 10 busiest area codes is in Idaho.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Idaho whose caller ID started with that code. 6 codes in the list are toll-free and belong to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 132 of the 284 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Idaho? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 208 | IdahoIn Idaho | Yes | 71 |
| 2 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 10 |
| 3 | 509 | Eastern WashingtonIn WA | No, WA | 8 |
| 4 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 8 |
| 5 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 8 |
| 6 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 7 |
| 7 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 7 |
| 8 | 561 | Palm Beach County, FLIn FL | No, FL | 5 |
| 9 | 617 | Boston, MAIn MA | No, MA | 4 |
| 10 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 4 |
Complaints from Idaho peaked at 112 in September 2026, against 38 in December 2025.
October 2025 and November 2025 are shaded and dotted because the FCC file holds only 323 and 16,267 complaints of any kind in those months, against about 29,400 in a usual one.
Complaints from Idaho by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Idaho per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Idaho
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 28 |
| December 2025 | 38 |
| January 2026 | 66 |
| February 2026 | 52 |
| March 2026 | 61 |
| April 2026 | 74 |
| May 2026 | 67 |
| June 2026 | 53 |
| July 2026 | 62 |
| August 2026 | 52 |
| September 2026 | 112 |
Prerecorded calls still lead the complaints from Idaho at 35%, below the 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 665 complaints from Idaho split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Idaho
How the 665 complaints from Idaho split.
- Prerecorded call35% · 232 complaints
- Text message28% · 184 complaints
- Live caller24% · 160 complaints
- Kind not stated13% · 89 complaints
Across the country the split is prerecorded call 41%, live caller 26%, text message 15%, kind not stated 17%.
Fewer than half of the US numbers people in Idaho reported carry an Idaho area code, 75 of 236 (32%), against 50% across the country.
Of 284 complaints that gave a caller ID, 75 named an Idaho code, 161 a code from another state, 46 a toll-free code and 2 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Idaho reported came from
Where the 284 caller ID numbers from Idaho came from.
Idaho ranks 25th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between California and Montana.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Idaho next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Idaho.
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665 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 32.8 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 25th among the 50 states and DC per person and 36th by total count.
208 (Idaho) was named on 71 complaints, 25% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 833 (toll-free, tied to no place) with 10 and 509 (Eastern Washington) with 8.
Not mostly. 32% of the complaints that named a US area code carried an Idaho code, against 50% across the country. After Idaho, the area codes named most belonged to Florida (22), Texas (13) and California (12). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
35% were about prerecorded calls, 24% about a live caller and 28% about text messages, and 13% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
Yes. People in Idaho filed 226 complaints in July to September 2026, 26% more than the 179 in January to March 2026. For the whole country the change over the same months was up 28%.
File a complaint with the FCC's Consumer Help Center at consumercomplaints.fcc.gov. Complaints filed there are the ones counted on this page, listed by the state of the person who filed. To report a scam or fraud call, use ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
A state with more people files more complaints just by being bigger. Dividing by the Census Bureau's July 1, 2025 estimate for Idaho (2,029,733 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Idaho ranks 25th per person and 36th by total count.
Every number on this page comes from two public sources.
The complaints come from the FCC.
Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", filed October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, read from opendata.fcc.gov on November 4, 2026.
The population comes from the Census Bureau.
U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (NST-EST2025-POP), Vintage 2025 estimate for July 1, 2025, released January 2026, checked November 2026.
Data: FCC Consumer Complaints, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026, analysed by ExpressNumber. www.expressnumber.com/spam-calls-by-state/idaho
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