Red Devil, AK
How exposed is Red Devil to wildfire?
USFS scores Red Devil at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 30 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 Red Devil at the 93rd percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Red Devil's building exposure, zone by zone
90% of Red Devil's 30 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 27 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 10% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Red Devil against the rest of the country
Red Devil scores 93rd nationally and 80th 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, Red Devil ranks 2,192 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,356 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 64 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
Red Devil's very high rating (93rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 90% of Red Devil 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Red Devil's 2,192-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Red Devil, see the exposure-zones guide.