Nome, AK
Nome, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Nome's 1,728 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nome at the 35th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Nome's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Nome's buildings (71.5%) 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.
Where Nome ranks
Nome's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (25th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nome ranks 22,649 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,311 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 241 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nome
Nome's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 71.5% of Nome's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nome's 22,649-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Nome, see the exposure-zones guide.