Fox River, AK
Fox River wildfire risk explained
Fox River's 469 buildings earn a 71st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fox River's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 71st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Fox River's 469 counted buildings, 98.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Fox River ranks
Fox River's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 54th ranking inside Alaska does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fox River ranks 9,191 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,892 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 149 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
Fox River's 71st-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Fox River
With 98.7% of Fox River 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
Fox River's 71st-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 Fox River, see the exposure-zones guide.