Silver Springs, AK
Silver Springs wildfire risk explained
Silver Springs's 91 buildings earn a 96th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Silver Springs at the 94th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Silver Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
91 buildings are counted in Silver Springs, 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.
Silver Springs against the rest of the country
Silver Springs's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (89th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (96th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Silver Springs ranks 1,186 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,434 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 36 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Silver Springs
Silver Springs's very high rating (96th 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.
Hardening a home in Silver Springs
With 100% of Silver Springs 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 Silver Springs's 1,186-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Silver Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.