Venetie, AK
Venetie, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Venetie at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 136 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Venetie at the 93rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Venetie's buildings actually sit
61.8% of Venetie's 136 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 84 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 38.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Venetie ranks
Venetie scores 94th nationally and 82nd 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, Venetie ranks 2,004 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,429 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 58 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Venetie and the insurance market
Venetie's very high rating (94th 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
Venetie's 61.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Venetie's 2,004-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Venetie, see the exposure-zones guide.