Tanacross, AK
How exposed is Tanacross to wildfire?
Tanacross's 14 buildings earn a 99th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tanacross at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Tanacross's building exposure, zone by zone
85.7% of Tanacross's 14 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 12 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 14.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal. This is a small settlement by building count — 14 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Where Tanacross ranks
Tanacross scores 99th nationally and 99th within Alaska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tanacross ranks 175 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,494 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 3 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tanacross
Tanacross's 99th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 85.7% of Tanacross 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.
Where Tanacross's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tanacross's 175-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. Small places like Tanacross (14 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.