Unalakleet, AK
Unalakleet wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Unalakleet lands at the 48th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 335 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Unalakleet at the 52nd percentile, close to its 48th-percentile risk score.
Where Unalakleet's buildings actually sit
Most of Unalakleet's buildings (79.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Unalakleet ranks
There's little gap between Unalakleet's 48th national percentile and its 38th percentile inside Alaska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Unalakleet ranks 16,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,692 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 200 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Unalakleet and the insurance market
Unalakleet's elevated wildfire rating (48th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 79.4% of Unalakleet's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 335 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Unalakleet. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Unalakleet, see the exposure-zones guide.