Sunrise, AK
Sunrise, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sunrise at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 15 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sunrise's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Where Sunrise's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Sunrise: 100% of its 15 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. This is a small settlement by building count — 15 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Sunrise compares
There's little gap between Sunrise's 15th national percentile and its 19th percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunrise ranks 26,683 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,486 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 260 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Sunrise and the insurance market
Sunrise's low rating (15th 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
Sunrise'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 15 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sunrise. At 15 buildings, Sunrise is close to the size where USFS's data gets thin — the data-quality guide explains why 517 places nationally get no score at all.