Coldfoot, AK
How exposed is Coldfoot to wildfire?
Coldfoot sits at the 90th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 35 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Coldfoot at the 89th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Coldfoot's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 51.4% of Coldfoot's 35 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 48.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Coldfoot against the rest of the country
Coldfoot's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (75th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (90th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Coldfoot ranks 3,203 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,262 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 81 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
Coldfoot's 90th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 51.4% of Coldfoot's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Coldfoot's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Coldfoot, see the exposure-zones guide.