Allakaket, AK
How exposed is Allakaket to wildfire?
USFS scores Allakaket at the 90th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 102 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 Allakaket at the 90th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Allakaket's 102 counted buildings, 90.2% carry Direct exposure and only 1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Allakaket ranks
Allakaket scores 90th nationally and 77th within Alaska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Allakaket ranks 3,012 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,930 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 75 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
Allakaket's 90th-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Allakaket (90.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Allakaket's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 102 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Allakaket. The exposure-zones guide covers what Allakaket's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.