Saxman, AK
How exposed is Saxman to wildfire?
USFS scores Saxman at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 134 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Saxman at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Saxman's building exposure, zone by zone
134 buildings are counted in Saxman, and 67.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 30.6% in Direct exposure or the 1.5% rated Minimal.
Where Saxman ranks
There's little gap between Saxman's 7th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Saxman ranks 29,174 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,524 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 296 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Saxman and the insurance market
Saxman'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.
Hardening a home in Saxman
Because 67.9% of Saxman's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Saxman's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Saxman's 29,174-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Saxman's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.