Klawock, AK
Klawock, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Klawock sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 380 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Klawock at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Klawock's buildings (50%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Klawock against the rest of the country
Klawock's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (10th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Klawock ranks 28,985 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,638 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 290 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Klawock
At the 8th national percentile, Klawock rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Klawock's 50% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Klawock's 28,985-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Klawock, see the exposure-zones guide.