Cohoe, AK
Cohoe wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cohoe at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,275 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 Cohoe at the 89th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Where Cohoe's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.8% of Cohoe's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0.8% Indirect share and far above its 0.4% Minimal share — a profile where 1,260 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Cohoe against the rest of the country
Cohoe scores 90th nationally and 75th 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, Cohoe ranks 3,234 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 82 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cohoe
Cohoe's very high rating (90th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98.8% of Cohoe 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 Cohoe's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cohoe's 3,234-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cohoe's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.