Kasaan, AK
Kasaan wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kasaan at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 58 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kasaan at the 8th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Kasaan's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Kasaan's 58 counted buildings, 100% 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 Kasaan compares
There's little gap between Kasaan's 7th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kasaan ranks 29,205 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,697 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 297 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Kasaan and the insurance market
Kasaan's low rating (7th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kasaan (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Kasaan's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 58 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kasaan. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kasaan's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.