Anaktuvuk Pass, AK
How exposed is Anaktuvuk Pass to wildfire?
Anaktuvuk Pass sits at the 36th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 174 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Anaktuvuk Pass at the 43rd percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
174 buildings are counted in Anaktuvuk Pass, and 73% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Anaktuvuk Pass ranks
Anaktuvuk Pass's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (28th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (36th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Anaktuvuk Pass ranks 20,316 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,845 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 232 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
Anaktuvuk Pass's moderate wildfire rating (36th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Anaktuvuk Pass
With 73% of Anaktuvuk Pass in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Anaktuvuk Pass's 20,316-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Anaktuvuk Pass, see the exposure-zones guide.