Diomede, AK
How exposed is Diomede to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Diomede lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 28 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Diomede at the 26th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
78.6% of Diomede's 28 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 21.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Diomede compares
Diomede's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Diomede ranks 25,107 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,377 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 253 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Diomede and the insurance market
At the 20th national percentile, Diomede rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Diomede
Diomede's 78.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Diomede's 20th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Diomede, see the exposure-zones guide.