Skwentna, AK
How exposed is Skwentna to wildfire?
Skwentna's 293 buildings earn a 86th-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, Skwentna's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Skwentna's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Skwentna: 100% of its 293 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Skwentna compares
Skwentna ranks lower within Alaska (70th percentile statewide) than its 86th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Skwentna ranks 4,305 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,806 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 96 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
Skwentna's 86th-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
Skwentna'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 293 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Skwentna. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Skwentna, see the exposure-zones guide.