Denali Park, AK
How exposed is Denali Park to wildfire?
Denali Park's 548 buildings earn a 94th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Denali Park at the 91st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Denali Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Denali Park: 69.5% of its 548 buildings, versus 30.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Denali Park ranks
There's little gap between Denali Park's 94th national percentile and its 83rd percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Denali Park ranks 1,973 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,595 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 56 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Denali Park and the insurance market
Denali Park's 94th-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.
Hardening a home in Denali Park
With 69.5% of Denali Park 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 548 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Denali Park. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Denali Park, see the exposure-zones guide.