Mountain Home Air Force Base: BAH and housing

Mountain Home Air Force Base is an Air Force base in Mountain Home, Idaho. E-5 BAH with dependents is $1,605 a month (97th-highest of 119 among the bases we track), $715 less than the $2,320 HUD fair-market rent for a 3-bedroom in ZIP 83647. In Mountain Home, the median home value is $309,400 and the median rent is $1,155, a mid-range market among the bases we cover (44th-highest of 114). It gets only 7 inches of precipitation in a normal year, tied for the 7th-driest of the bases we track.

Data: DTMO 2026 BAH for MHA ID086, HUD rents for ZIP 83647, Census ACS for Mountain Home city, NOAA normals at Bruneau, ID. Jump to sources · Methodology

What is my BAH (Basic Allowance for Housing) at Mountain Home Air Force Base?

This calculator uses 2026 DTMO (Defense Travel Management Office) rates for selected pay grade and dependent status.

Pay grade

Dependents

$1,524/mo

Monthly BAH at E-5 pay grade without dependents.

Mountain Home Air Force Base: $1,524

Typical 2-bedroom rent nearby: $1,660/mo
BAH vs that rent: $136/mo short

Key facts for living at Mountain Home Air Force Base

Key facts for living at Mountain Home Air Force Base
Host state	Idaho
State income tax	Top listed rate 5.3%
Top state income-tax rate	5.3%
Average sales tax (state + local)	6.03%
Average property tax (real estate)	0.50%
Personal property tax (vehicles)	No
Median home value	$483,379
Military housing area	ID086 — MOUNTAIN HOME AFB, ID
Climate (annual high / low)	69° / 42°F
Annual precipitation	7.4 in
Official site	Mountain Home Air Force Base

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PCS checklist for Mountain Home Air Force Base

Update DEERS and your page-2 / dependency status before BAH starts at the new MHA (ID086).
Look up your exact BAH for rank and dependents on the DTMO BAH lookup (ZIP 83648).
Off-base 2-bedroom HUD FMR in Elmore County is $1,192/mo. On-base housing is separate.
Get an ID driver license within 30 days and title the car within 30 days. See Idaho.
Confirm reporting instructions on the official Mountain Home Air Force Base site.

How Mountain Home Air Force Base compares

E-5 with-dependents BAH is higher at Hanscom Air Force Base ($4,188 vs $1,605).

Use the picker above for any other compatible installation. Published PCS pages that include Mountain Home Air Force Base are listed here.

Sources

Housing figures below are for the installation (MHA, HUD rent, climate). Host-state tax rates are statewide averages — not a tax return. County add-ons can differ, and wage tax on military pay follows legal residence, not the duty station.

BAH (with and without dependents). DTMO CY2026 BAH tables for Mountain Home Air Force Base (ID086). Confirm current rates on the DTMO BAH lookup.
2-bedroom Fair Market Rent. HUD FY2026 FMR — Elmore County $1,192.
Off-base ZIP rent (HUD Small Area FMR). FY2026 ZIP 2- and 3-bedroom 40th-percentile rents from the HUD Small Area FMR tables: 83647 (Mountain Home) $1,660 / $2,320.
Off-base city home value and rent. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year 2020–2024 tables B25077 (median value of owner-occupied homes) and B25064 (median gross rent) for Mountain Home city, Idaho ($309,400, $1,155/mo). Owner-reported values, not transaction prices.
Climate normals (1991–2020). NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals — Bruneau, ID (USC00101195).
Host-state wage tax. Statewide listed rates for Idaho from the Tax Foundation 2026 individual income-tax tables. On this page they describe the host state, not automatically the tax on a military LES (legal residence can stay put). BAH is untaxed.
Combined sales tax near the installation. Tax Foundation January 2026 state-and-local sales-tax averages for Idaho. Used as an off-base shopping stand-in; city and county add-ons vary.
Effective property tax if you buy off-base. Tax Foundation 2026 property taxes by state for Idaho. On-base housing is not in this figure.
Vehicle title tax and new-resident clocks. Idaho motor-vehicle agency (license 30 days, title 30 days; title tax 6.00%). These are host-state motor-vehicle rules, not BAH.
Vehicle personal-property tax on the host-state snapshot. WalletHub 2026 vehicle property-tax table for Idaho. This is a statewide car-tax flag, not real-estate tax and not BAH.
Statewide median home value on the host-state snapshot. Experian / Zillow March 2026 state medians for Idaho. Backdrop for off-base purchase prices; on-base housing and BAH are separate.

Data last updated: September 2026. How the data is compiled