Perryville, AK
Perryville, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Perryville at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 80 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Perryville at the 48th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Perryville's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Perryville: 100% of its 80 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Perryville compares
There's little gap between Perryville's 47th national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perryville ranks 16,629 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,868 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 204 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Perryville
At the 47th national percentile, Perryville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Perryville (100%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Perryville's 16,629-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Perryville, see the exposure-zones guide.