Akiak, AK
How exposed is Akiak to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Akiak at the 74th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 129 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Akiak's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Akiak's building exposure, zone by zone
50.4% of Akiak's 129 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 49.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Akiak ranks
Inside Alaska, Akiak sits at just the 57th percentile even though it scores 74th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Akiak ranks 8,214 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,741 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 140 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Akiak
Akiak's 74th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 50.4% of Akiak's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Akiak's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 129 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Akiak. The exposure-zones guide covers what Akiak's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.