Soldotna, AK
Soldotna, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Soldotna at the 87th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,003 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 Soldotna at the 86th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Soldotna's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Soldotna's 2,003 counted buildings, 48.1% carry Direct exposure and only 20.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Soldotna against the rest of the country
Inside Alaska, Soldotna sits at just the 71st percentile even though it scores 87th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Soldotna ranks 4,023 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,468 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 95 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Soldotna and the insurance market
Soldotna's 87th-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
With 48.1% of Soldotna 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 Soldotna's 4,023-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Soldotna, see the exposure-zones guide.