St. Paul, AK
How exposed is St. Paul to wildfire?
St. Paul sits at the 5th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 279 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, St. Paul's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
St. Paul's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 3.2% of St. Paul's 279 buildings carry Direct exposure and 17.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 79.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How St. Paul compares
There's little gap between St. Paul's 5th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. Paul ranks 29,836 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,207 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 317 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in St. Paul
St. Paul's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 79.6% of St. Paul outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where St. Paul's figures come from
St. Paul's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what St. Paul's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.