False Pass, AK
False Pass wildfire risk explained
USFS scores False Pass at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 16 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 False Pass at the 5th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
False Pass's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 87.5% of False Pass's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 12.5% Minimal share — a profile where 14 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. This is a small settlement by building count — 16 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Where False Pass ranks
False Pass scores 6th nationally and 3rd within Alaska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, False Pass ranks 29,615 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,480 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 313 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in False Pass
False Pass's low rating (6th 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
With 87.5% of False Pass 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 16 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for False Pass. At 16 buildings, False Pass is close to the size where USFS's data gets thin — the data-quality guide explains why 517 places nationally get no score at all.