Aniak, AK
How exposed is Aniak to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Aniak at the 89th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 292 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aniak at the 88th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Where Aniak's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Aniak: 76.4% of its 292 buildings, versus 20.6% Indirect and 3.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Aniak against the rest of the country
Inside Alaska, Aniak sits at just the 74th percentile even though it scores 89th 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, Aniak ranks 3,453 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,843 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 85 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aniak
Aniak's 89th-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
Aniak's 76.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Aniak's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aniak's 3,453-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Aniak's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.