Primrose, AK
How exposed is Primrose to wildfire?
USFS scores Primrose at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 64 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Primrose at the 14th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Primrose's building exposure, zone by zone
64 buildings are counted in Primrose, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Primrose against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Primrose's 14th national percentile and its 19th percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Primrose ranks 27,188 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,490 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 262 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 14th national percentile, Primrose rates low 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
Primrose's 100% 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
Primrose's 14th-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 Primrose, see the exposure-zones guide.