Lake Minchumina, AK
Lake Minchumina wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lake Minchumina at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 30 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 Lake Minchumina at the 94th percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Where Lake Minchumina's buildings actually sit
Of Lake Minchumina's 30 counted buildings, 83.3% 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 Lake Minchumina ranks
Lake Minchumina scores 94th nationally and 84th within Alaska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Minchumina ranks 1,782 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,354 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 54 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Lake Minchumina and the insurance market
Lake Minchumina's very high rating (94th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lake Minchumina (83.3%), 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
Lake Minchumina's 94th-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 Lake Minchumina, see the exposure-zones guide.