Excursion Inlet, AK
Excursion Inlet wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Excursion Inlet at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 82 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Excursion Inlet at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Excursion Inlet's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 56.1% of Excursion Inlet's 82 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 40.2% Direct and 3.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Excursion Inlet compares
Excursion Inlet's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Excursion Inlet ranks 29,236 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,788 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 299 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Excursion Inlet's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Excursion Inlet's 56.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Excursion Inlet's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Excursion Inlet, see the exposure-zones guide.