Chignik, AK
Chignik wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Chignik at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 142 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chignik at the 36th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Chignik's buildings actually sit
142 buildings are counted in Chignik, and 72.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.4% rated Minimal.
Where Chignik ranks
Chignik's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (28th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (35th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chignik ranks 20,600 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,186 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 233 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Chignik and the insurance market
At the 35th national percentile, Chignik rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 72.5% of Chignik 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chignik's 20,600-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Chignik, see the exposure-zones guide.