Point MacKenzie, AK
How exposed is Point MacKenzie to wildfire?
Point MacKenzie's 540 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Point MacKenzie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Point MacKenzie's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Point MacKenzie's 540 counted buildings, 76.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Point MacKenzie compares
Inside Alaska, Point MacKenzie sits at just the 66th percentile even though it scores 83rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Point MacKenzie ranks 5,379 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,714 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 111 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Point MacKenzie
Point MacKenzie's 83rd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Point MacKenzie's 76.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Point MacKenzie's 5,379-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Point MacKenzie, see the exposure-zones guide.