Kootenai County has no ordinance banning backyard composting; home composting of yard and food scraps is allowed. Compost must not become a nuisance (odor, vermin) or an illegal-dumping problem, and cannot be used to dodge the noxious-weed control duty.
There is no county permit or prohibition for a residential compost pile in unincorporated Kootenai County. General nuisance and solid-waste rules still apply: a pile that generates strong odors, attracts rodents, or spreads onto neighboring land can be handled as a nuisance, and dumping yard waste on land that is not yours is illegal dumping under Idaho littering law (Idaho Code 18-7031). Composting weedy material does not relieve you of the Idaho Code 22-2407 duty to control noxious weeds, and seeds can survive backyard piles. Kootenai County operates solid-waste transfer stations for yard debris you don't compost.
No composting-specific fine, but a nuisance compost pile can draw a county nuisance-abatement order, and dumping yard waste off your property is illegal dumping under Idaho Code 18-7031.
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