Attu Station, AK
How exposed is Attu Station to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Attu Station lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Attu Station's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Attu Station's building exposure, zone by zone
5 buildings are counted in Attu Station, 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. This is a small settlement by building count — 5 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Attu Station against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Attu Station's 5th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Attu Station ranks 29,804 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,518 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 315 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
At the 5th national percentile, Attu Station rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Attu Station
With 100% of Attu Station 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.
Where Attu Station's figures come from
Attu Station's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. Small places like Attu Station (5 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.