Glacier View, AK
Glacier View, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Glacier View's 429 buildings earn a 52nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glacier View at the 47th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Glacier View's building exposure, zone by zone
97.2% of Glacier View's 429 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 417 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 1.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.6% are Minimal.
Glacier View against the rest of the country
Glacier View's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (41st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (52nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glacier View ranks 15,180 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,666 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 190 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glacier View
Glacier View's elevated wildfire rating (52nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Glacier View
With 97.2% of Glacier View 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glacier View's 15,180-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glacier View, see the exposure-zones guide.