Kupreanof, AK
How exposed is Kupreanof to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kupreanof lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 9 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 Kupreanof at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Where Kupreanof's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Kupreanof: 100% of its 9 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. This is a small settlement by building count — 9 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Kupreanof against the rest of the country
Kupreanof's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (9th 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, Kupreanof ranks 29,142 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,512 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 294 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
Kupreanof's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kupreanof
Kupreanof's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Kupreanof's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kupreanof's 29,142-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. Small places like Kupreanof (9 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.