Moose Creek, AK
Moose Creek, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Moose Creek at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 216 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Moose Creek at the 98th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Moose Creek's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Moose Creek: 82.9% of its 216 buildings, versus 17.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Moose Creek compares
There's little gap between Moose Creek's 99th national percentile and its 97th percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moose Creek ranks 460 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,261 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 13 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Moose Creek and the insurance market
At the 99th percentile nationally, Moose Creek carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Moose Creek
Moose Creek's 82.9% 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 Moose Creek's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 216 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Moose Creek. The exposure-zones guide covers what Moose Creek's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.