Eagle, AK
How exposed is Eagle to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Eagle lands at the 99th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 137 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Eagle's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
Eagle's building exposure, zone by zone
137 buildings are counted in Eagle, and 54.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.5% rated Minimal.
How Eagle compares
Eagle's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eagle ranks 427 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,386 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 10 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Eagle and the insurance market
Eagle's 99th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Eagle's 54.7% 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 Eagle's figures come from
Eagle's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Eagle's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.