Petersville, AK
Petersville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Petersville at the 83rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 290 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 Petersville at the 81st percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Where Petersville's buildings actually sit
Of Petersville's 290 counted buildings, 100% 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.
How Petersville compares
Petersville's 83rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 65th ranking inside Alaska does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Petersville ranks 5,409 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,902 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 112 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Petersville
Petersville's very high rating (83rd 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
With 100% of Petersville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 290 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Petersville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Petersville, see the exposure-zones guide.