Eagle Village, AK
Eagle Village, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Eagle Village lands at the 98th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 72 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 Eagle Village at the 96th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Where Eagle Village's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 100% of Eagle Village's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 72 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Eagle Village ranks
There's little gap between Eagle Village's 98th national percentile and its 93rd percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eagle Village ranks 742 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,195 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 23 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Eagle Village
Eagle Village's 98th-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
With 100% of Eagle Village 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
Eagle Village's 98th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Eagle Village, see the exposure-zones guide.