Mobile tire service in West Boise and the West Bench

On our Pittsburgh and Chicago pages we can tell you how many pothole reports your neighbourhood filed. On a Boise page we cannot, and the reason is worth more than the number would have been: the City of Boise does not own the street outside your house. The Ada County Highway District does, and it owns every other street in the county too.

We supply the tires and fit them where the car is parked, here and across the Boise metro. No separate call-out fee, no estimate visit.

One road authority for the whole county

ACHD describes itself as serving "all who walk, bike, roll, and drive throughout the 5,000+ lane miles within Ada County". It is run by five elected commissioners. Its headquarters is at 5800 North Meeker Avenue in Boise, with maintenance yards at 440 North Cloverdale Road in Boise and 3775 North Adams Street in Garden City, and a traffic operations centre on East Franklin Road.

That is genuinely unusual. In every other metro we work in, the city fixes the city's streets. In Ada County a single county-wide highway district does it for Boise, Meridian, Eagle, Garden City, Kuna and Star alike — so the boundary that decides who patches your road is not the boundary that decides your mailing address.

It also explains a gap that looks, from outside, like secrecy. We read the City of Boise open data portal's full catalogue on 2026-09-20: 88 datasets, and not one of them is a street-maintenance, pothole, pavement-condition or service-request layer. The nearest things by title are Street Lights, Streetlight Conduit, Streetlight Power Cabinets, the Streetlight Outage Map, Street Trees and Police Calls for Service. The city is not hiding the pothole data. The city does not have it, because the city does not own the streets.

ACHD, which does own them, runs a public Report a Pothole form and publishes no open dataset of reports or repairs, and no pavement-condition index we could reach.

So there is no Boise pothole count, no worst-street list and no neighbourhood ranking, here or anywhere. If you are shown one, ask which dataset it came from. We could not find one and we looked properly.

What ACHD does publish, which is better than a number

The road authority explains the mechanism itself, and we would rather quote the body that fills the holes than explain it ourselves. Potholes are worse in spring, ACHD says, because over the winter melting snow and ice "seep into the pavement, then freeze and expand", opening gaps; once the ice melts the fractured pavement cannot carry the weight of passing cars.

Boise supplies that cycle in quantity. NOAA's 1991–2020 normals at Boise Air Terminal record 100.9 days a year with a low at or below 32 Fahrenheit but only 18.8 days when the temperature never climbs above freezing, which leaves roughly 82 days a year when the road crosses freezing in both directions (derived: 100.9 minus 18.8). Running the identical arithmetic on the city files we hold, Denver comes out near 136, Pittsburgh near 82 and Chicago near 79 — so Boise and Pittsburgh are effectively tied on this measure, and both sit well below Denver. That is a comparison with three named cities computed the same way, not a claim about anywhere we have not measured.

ACHD also runs a named annual programme it calls Pothole Days, shown as 30 March to 3 April, timed for when "most winter weather is behind us and hot mix plants are open" and before summer chip sealing starts. Holes are patched all year, and ACHD's stated target once one is reported is to repair it by the end of the next business day. That is the interesting number in this metro, and it is ACHD's own. It is also an operating schedule rather than a statute, so check the dates in the year you are reading this.

Chip sealing is the summer half of the same programme. ACHD names it; nothing we read puts a schedule, a lane-mile count or an aggregate specification against it, so we will not describe what a fresh seal does to your tires either.

The directory that keys to this ZIP

Tire Rack's recommended-installer list for Boise keys off 83704, which makes this the ZIP where the shape of the local market is easiest to see. On 2026-09-20 that list held fifteen installers, and exactly one of them was flagged a mobile installer. One in fifteen, in a directory Tire Rack builds for this ZIP.

Two of the fifteen sit inside 83704 itself: Firestone Complete Auto Care at 6690 Fairview Avenue, at $145.20 for the four-tire installation Tire Rack prices. The cheapest figures on the list are the Discount Tire stores at $116.00 and The Tire Choice stores at $118.74. Those prices are for tires the customer supplies, which is a job we no longer do, so treat them as market context rather than as a quote you could compare with ours.

Who lives here

42,719 residents across 17,495 occupied housing units, 63.0% owner-occupied and 37.0% renter. The median unit falls in the 1980s band, but 25.8% of every housing unit in this ZIP was built in the 1970s — the heaviest 1970s concentration of the ten Boise-area ZIP codes in our research, ahead of 83705's 24.2%. 47.0% predates 1980 altogether.

57.0% are one-unit detached, our labelled proxy for off-street space, and 6.1% are mobile homes or other non-standard structures, the second-highest share of the ten behind 83714's 9.4%. A park pitch is a different working environment from a suburban apron; we have no inventory of parks here, so we ask.

70.0% drive alone to work and 10.1% carpool — the highest carpool share of the ten. 14.0% work at home, the lowest of the ten, against 17.6% citywide. 4.6% of households keep no vehicle, 39.6% keep two and 23.9% three or more. Mean commute 18.5 minutes (derived from ACS table B08013).

Essentially the whole ZIP is inside registered neighbourhood associations — 21,114 of 21,118 addresses: West Boise 6,195, West Valley 5,845, West Bench 4,354, Winstead Park 2,730, Liberty Park 1,545 and Glenwood Rim 445. And it is flat: 22 of those 21,118 addresses, 0.1%, fall inside the city's Hillside overlay. Only 83713, with none at all, is flatter.

A ZIP with the lowest work-from-home share of the ten is a ZIP where the car is usually somewhere else on a weekday. If yours is at a workplace, a flat tire at work covers what we need there — a car park space is usually easier than a driveway.

What we do not do

We supply the tires we fit, so a set bought elsewhere is out; we withdrew customer-supplied fitting on 2026-09-20. No alignment, no rotation on its own, no balancing on its own, no brakes, no emergency roadside. We do not store tires. Mobile puncture repair is in scope, subject to inspecting the tire from the inside once it is off the rim. We need level, paved, legal ground with room at one corner of the car.

Our price: $145, and $50 for each extra tire

A mobile puncture repair is $145 for the first tire and $50 for each additional tire in the same visit. Fixed, not a starting figure. It covers getting to you, the wheel off, the tire demounted and inspected from the inside, a plug and patch fitted the way the tire industry requires, remounting, rebalancing, a TPMS reset where the vehicle supports it, and the wheel back on. No separate call-out fee. If the damage is not repairable we say so on the spot: the inspection is charged and the repair is not.

Questions people ask

• Who do I report a pothole to in Boise? ACHD, not the city. It runs the form and it owns the road.
• Which month is worst for pothole damage here? ACHD says spring and schedules its own patching for the end of March. It does not name a peak month and neither will we, because no Boise dataset exists to build that curve from.
• I hit one on Fairview and the wheel is shaking. A thumping noise from a tire and a bulge in the sidewall narrow it down. A bulge is a replacement, never a repair.
• Can you come today? Tell us the address and the tire size and we will tell you the real window rather than a promise. Same-day mobile tire service and tire repair open now in Boise set out how it works.
• What size am I on? Find your tire size, then how many tires.
• Where else do you work in Boise? Vista and the Central Bench, Southwest Boise, Northwest and Pierce Park, the North End and Barber Valley.