Takotna, AK
Takotna, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Takotna at the 99th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 50 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Takotna at the 99th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Takotna's buildings actually sit
50 buildings are counted in Takotna, 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.
Where Takotna ranks
Takotna's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alaska (98th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Takotna ranks 332 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,924 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 7 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
Takotna's very high rating (99th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Takotna 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 Takotna's 332-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Takotna, see the exposure-zones guide.