Ferry, AK
Ferry, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ferry at the 96th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 16 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ferry's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 96th percentile nationally.
Where Ferry's buildings actually sit
16 buildings are counted in Ferry, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal. This is a small settlement by building count — 16 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Ferry against the rest of the country
Ferry scores 96th nationally and 90th 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, Ferry ranks 1,184 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,481 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 34 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ferry
Ferry's 96th-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
Ferry's 100% 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 Ferry's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ferry's 1,184-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. Small places like Ferry (16 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.