Alcan Border, AK
Alcan Border wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Alcan Border at the 97th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 24 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alcan Border at the 97th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Alcan Border's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Alcan Border's 24 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. This is a small settlement by building count — 24 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Alcan Border compares
There's little gap between Alcan Border's 97th national percentile and its 93rd percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alcan Border ranks 805 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,425 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 25 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Alcan Border's very high rating (97th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Alcan Border (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Alcan Border's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Alcan Border's 805-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. Small places like Alcan Border (24 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.