Pitkas Point, AK
How exposed is Pitkas Point to wildfire?
Pitkas Point sits at the 40th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 50 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pitkas Point at the 44th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pitkas Point's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Pitkas Point's 50 counted buildings, 80% carry Direct exposure and only 8% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Pitkas Point compares
Pitkas Point's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (30th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (40th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pitkas Point ranks 18,992 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,923 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 225 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 40th national percentile, Pitkas Point rates moderate 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 Pitkas Point (80%), 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
Pitkas Point's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pitkas Point, see the exposure-zones guide.