Tenakee Springs, AK
How exposed is Tenakee Springs to wildfire?
USFS scores Tenakee Springs at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 91 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tenakee Springs at the 10th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tenakee Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Tenakee Springs: 90.1% of its 91 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 9.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Tenakee Springs against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Tenakee Springs's 10th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tenakee Springs ranks 28,511 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,435 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 279 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Tenakee Springs and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Tenakee Springs rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Tenakee Springs's 90.1% 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.
Where Tenakee Springs's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 91 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tenakee Springs. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tenakee Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.