Noatak, AK
Noatak wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Noatak at the 59th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 158 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Noatak's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 62nd percentile nationally.
Noatak's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Noatak's buildings (59.5%) 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.
Noatak against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Noatak's 59th national percentile and its 47th percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Noatak ranks 13,037 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,513 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 171 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Noatak
Noatak's elevated wildfire rating (59th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Noatak (59.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Noatak's 13,037-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Noatak, see the exposure-zones guide.