Diamond Ridge, AK
How exposed is Diamond Ridge to wildfire?
USFS scores Diamond Ridge at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,000 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Diamond Ridge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
Diamond Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Diamond Ridge's 1,000 counted buildings, 99.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Diamond Ridge against the rest of the country
Inside Alaska, Diamond Ridge sits at just the 49th percentile even though it scores 65th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Diamond Ridge ranks 10,923 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,932 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 166 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Diamond Ridge and the insurance market
Diamond Ridge's 65th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Diamond Ridge's 99.7% 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.
Where Diamond Ridge's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Diamond Ridge's 10,923-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Diamond Ridge's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.