Farmers Loop, AK
Farmers Loop, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Farmers Loop lands at the 95th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 2,213 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 Farmers Loop at the 94th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Farmers Loop's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Farmers Loop's 2,213 counted buildings, 92.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Farmers Loop compares
Farmers Loop's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (85th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (95th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Farmers Loop ranks 1,530 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,900 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 48 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Farmers Loop
Farmers Loop's 95th-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
With 92.6% of Farmers Loop 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.
Where Farmers Loop's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,213 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Farmers Loop. The exposure-zones guide covers what Farmers Loop's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.