Chefornak, AK
Chefornak, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Chefornak at the 73rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 134 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 Chefornak at the 74th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Chefornak's building exposure, zone by zone
56.7% of Chefornak's 134 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 76 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 41.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.5% are Minimal.
Chefornak against the rest of the country
Inside Alaska, Chefornak sits at just the 56th percentile even though it scores 73rd 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, Chefornak ranks 8,434 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,523 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 141 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
Chefornak's high rating (73rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Chefornak's 56.7% 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 Chefornak's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chefornak's 8,434-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chefornak's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.