Chena Ridge, AK
Chena Ridge, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Chena Ridge at the 97th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,715 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Chena Ridge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 96th percentile nationally.
Chena Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
2,715 buildings are counted in Chena Ridge, and 92.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 6.3% rated Minimal.
How Chena Ridge compares
There's little gap between Chena Ridge's 97th national percentile and its 92nd percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chena Ridge ranks 869 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,906 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 27 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chena Ridge
Chena Ridge's very high rating (97th 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
Chena Ridge's 92.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Chena Ridge's 97th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Chena Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.