Point Hope, AK
Point Hope, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Point Hope at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 318 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Point Hope at the 8th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Point Hope's buildings actually sit
Only 1.3% of Point Hope's 318 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Point Hope compares
Point Hope scores 7th nationally and 5th within Alaska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Point Hope ranks 29,394 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,141 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 307 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
Point Hope's low wildfire rating (7th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 98.7% of Point Hope outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 318 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Point Hope. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Point Hope, see the exposure-zones guide.