Anvik, AK
How exposed is Anvik to wildfire?
Anvik's 64 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Anvik at the 79th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
64 buildings are counted in Anvik, and 100% 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.
How Anvik compares
Inside Alaska, Anvik sits at just the 65th percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Anvik ranks 5,503 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,488 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 115 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Anvik and the insurance market
Anvik's 83rd-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.
Hardening a home in Anvik
Anvik's 100% 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 Anvik's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Anvik's 5,503-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Anvik's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.