Brevig Mission, AK
Brevig Mission, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brevig Mission at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 117 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 Brevig Mission at the 23rd percentile, higher than its 13th-percentile risk score, because relatively few of its buildings sit in harm's way.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Brevig Mission (83.8% of 117 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 14.5% sit in the Direct zone.
How Brevig Mission compares
Brevig Mission scores 13th nationally and 18th 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, Brevig Mission ranks 27,566 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,283 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 265 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Brevig Mission and the insurance market
Brevig Mission's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Brevig Mission
Brevig Mission's 83.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Brevig Mission's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brevig Mission's 27,566-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brevig Mission's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.