Kongiganak, AK
Kongiganak, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Kongiganak at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 130 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kongiganak at the 76th percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Where Kongiganak's buildings actually sit
62.3% of Kongiganak's 130 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 81 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 37.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Kongiganak against the rest of the country
Inside Alaska, Kongiganak sits at just the 58th percentile even though it scores 75th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kongiganak ranks 7,804 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,702 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 136 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kongiganak
Kongiganak's 75th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kongiganak (62.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kongiganak's 7,804-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kongiganak, see the exposure-zones guide.