Kasilof, AK
How exposed is Kasilof to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kasilof lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 396 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 Kasilof at the 90th percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Where Kasilof's buildings actually sit
Of Kasilof's 396 counted buildings, 99.8% 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.
Where Kasilof ranks
Kasilof's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (91st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kasilof ranks 2,949 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,290 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 74 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
Kasilof's 91st-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
With 99.8% of Kasilof 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
Kasilof's 91st-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 Kasilof, see the exposure-zones guide.