Tuluksak, AK
How exposed is Tuluksak to wildfire?
USFS scores Tuluksak at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 121 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tuluksak at the 94th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Tuluksak's buildings actually sit
Of Tuluksak's 121 counted buildings, 64.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Tuluksak against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Tuluksak's 93rd national percentile and its 81st percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tuluksak ranks 2,129 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,094 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 61 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Tuluksak and the insurance market
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Tuluksak carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Tuluksak (64.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Tuluksak's figures come from
Tuluksak's 93rd-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 Tuluksak's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.